KnowraSentimental novelLinked fromLinked fromThe 12 pages that link to Sentimental novel, each with the reason it gives.All 12Broader topic 1Related 4Narrower topic 4Compared with 3Epistolary novelRelated: Epistolary narration suited the period's interest in displaying emotion as it unfolded.SentimentalismBroader topic: This popular form gave sentimental ideals an extended narrative shape.Uncle Tom’s CabinNarrower topic: Stowe uses scenes of family separation and suffering to make slavery an intimate moral issue.Domestic fictionRelated: Its appeal to sympathy helped establish private emotion as a serious literary subject.Psychological novelNarrower topic: It helped prepare fiction to treat emotional experience as worthy of extended narrative attention.The AwakeningCompared with: Chopin resists the reassuring moral resolutions common in sentimental fiction.The Sorrows of Young WertherRelated: The novel’s appeals to sympathy draw on conventions of sentimental fiction.Laurence SterneRelated: Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey helped shape this mode while also playing with its conventions.The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingCompared with: Fielding’s irony and energetic action differ from the sentiment-centered fiction gaining popularity in his era.Amelia OpieNarrower topic: Opie used emotional storytelling to make characters’ suffering a basis for ethical reflection.Clarissa; or, The History of a Young LadyNarrower topic: Clarissa helped establish the emotional seriousness and moral appeal associated with sentimental fiction.Michael ArlenCompared with: Arlen's romantic plots invite comparison with fiction that makes emotional appeal its central method.