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''The Man of Feeling'' is a sentimental novel published in 1771, written by Scottish author Henry Mackenzie. The novel presents a series of moral vignettes which the naïve protagonist Harley either observes, is told about, or participates in. This novel is often seen to contain elements of the Romantic novel, which became prolific in the years following its publishing. ==Background== ''The Man of Feeling'' was Mackenzie's first and most famous novel, which was begun in London in 1767.〔Mackenzie, Henry. ''The Man of Feeling'', edited by Brian Vickers (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)〕 It was published in April 1771, sold out by the beginning of June, and reached its sixth edition by 1791.〔 Mackenzie wrote ''The Man of Feeling'' in the latter half of the eighteenth century, by the end of which the concept of sentimentalism had steadily become merely laughable and entertaining.〔Mullan, John. ‘Sentimental Novels’, in ''The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth Century Novel'', edited by John Richetti (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)〕 An 'Index to Tears', which was first included in the 1886 edition of ''The Man of Feeling'' edited by Professor Henry Morley, indicates how the "repertory of sentimental effects...has become a repertory of mirthful effects, perhaps to be read aloud in the Victorian parlour to an audience only needing to hear these categories of tears in order to trigger a rather different physical response."〔 Whilst in the reaction to sentimentalism authors and readers alike satirised or humiliated characters with an excess of emotion, there remained those who supported elements of the genre. According to theorist Hugh Blair, the man of feeling “lives in a different sort of world from what the selfish man inhabits. He possesses a new sense, which enables him to behold objects which the selfish man cannot see.”〔Van Sant, Ann Jessie. ''Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004)〕 Mackenzie experienced difficulty in getting ''The Man of Feeling'' published, until he finally managed to have it published anonymously. A priest by the name of Eccles made an attempt to claim authorship, supported by "a manuscript full of changes and erasures" in his possession.〔Henry Mackenzie〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Man of Feeling」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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