In the 19th century, the meaning of this term(Sentimentalism) had changed for that many novelists wrote cheap sentiment novels that were less popular and totally exaggerated.
In Jane Austen’s first novel Sense and Sensibility(Sentimentality) we can find sentiments which is even shown in the title.
In A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy Laurence Sterne travelled through [[France]] and [[Italy]] as far south as [[Naples]], and after returning determined to describe his travels from a [[sentimental]] point of view.
MrYorick, the hero of the novel, follows his Sensibility and finds pleasure in everything he does, he has various adventures of lust and feeling with women .
A Sentimental Journey emphasized the subjective discussions of personal taste and sentiments, of manners and morals over classical learning.
Sterne called it a "sentimental" journey because the point of travel was not to see sights or visit art collections, but to make meaningful contact with people. Yorick succeeds, but in every adventure, his ego or inappropriate desires and impulses get in the way of "sentimental commerce." The result is a light-hearted comedy of moral sentiments.
It is one of the most popular and imitated works of fiction, by Jane Austen, it is a story set in the early 19th century with many themes running through it. As the title of the novel suggests, two major themes running throughout the novel are 'pride' and 'prejudice' exemplified best by the main characters of the novel, Elizabeth Bennet (one of the five daughters in Bennett Family) and FitzWilliam Darcy (A wealthy young man of high status ) .
The other themes that the story deals with includes family, marriage, women, , virtue, and class. Jane Austen has shown the social fabric of society during her times and made a comment on all the important and inevitable aspects of life.
**A major theme in much of Austen's work is the importance of environment and upbringing on the development of young people's character and morality. Social standing and wealth are not necessarily advantages in her world, and a further theme common to Jane Austen's work is useless parents.
In Pride and Prejudice, the failure of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet(particularly the latter) as parents is blamed for Lydia's lack of moral judgment
*Darcy, on the other hand, has been taught to be principled and carefully honorable , but also proud. Kitty, rescued from Lydia's bad influence and spends overbearing more time with her older sisters after they marry, is said to improve greatly in their superior society..
Throughout the whole novel we can’t exact a sentiment character who has this exaggerated emotions but we can find some serious characters instead, which are not as MrYorick’scharacterwho has this exaggerated feelings toward simple matters .
Therefore, it is not considered as a sentimental novel because Jane Austen criticizes society through the novel without showing any sentiment by the characters as it should.
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