ENGL 3207H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, George Lillo, Cautionary Tale
2 Feb 2016
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Taste for sentimental drama: indulgence in tears lillo recognized this trend. Sympathy intuitive, emotional audience response is emotional, not rational. Hume: the passions are so contagious, that they pass with the greatest facility from one person to another, and produce correspondent movements in all human breasts. Quite unusual work, even for its time. High sounding moralizing going all the way through. Lillo doing something revolutionary and speaking to the taste of the time . Is it just a cautionary tale or is there more going on with this text? growing interest in the middle class. Lady mary wortley montagu: whoever did not cry at george barnwell must. Someone else: such is the artful contrivance of this play; so delicate is the. Texture of its composition, that none, but a common prostitute, can find fault with it . A level as millwood in the play. Speaking the structure and style; literally qualities of the play.
