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Sentimental Writing [from the London Saturday Review]

"Sentimental Writing [from the London Saturday Review]." New-York Saturday Press. 15 Dec. 1860: 1.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
literary criticism
Abstract: 

A short essay on what makes sentimentalist writing effective and affecting. There needs to be dignity in it, with a precarious balance of distance and familiarity with the audience.