#sentimentalism

ECF journal for Spring 2016 (28.3) features a new article on Henry Mackenzie’s novel The Man of Feeling(1771):

“The Sentimental Virtuoso: Collecting Feeling in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling,” by Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College

Read this article on Project MUSE: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/33316

ReadThe Man of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie online here (text of the 1800 edition):
https://archive.org/details/manfeeling01mackgoog

The two prints above are by Gillray (crowd scene) and Rowlandson (duo), satirizing the entire concept of “a man of feeling.”

For full-color portraits of Mackenzie, visit the National Portrait Gallery online:
for example,
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw04138/Henry-Mackenzie

National Galleries of Scotland online includes a lovely portrait of Mackenzie in old age:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/collection/artists-a-z/s/artist/colvin-smith/object/henry-mackenzie-1745-1831-novelist-and-essayist-pg-1032