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.Domestic fictionRelated: Its appeal to sympathy helped establish private emotion as a serious literary subject.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.