Henry Mackenzie
Mackenzie was the leading Scottish novelist of sensibility, whose The Man of Feeling epitomised the cult of refined emotion that swept British culture in the 1770s. His work influenced Burns, Scott, and the entire tradition of sentimental fiction.
Works
- The Man of FeelingNovel depicting hypersensitive protagonist's painful encounters with human misery and suffering
- The Man of the WorldNovel contrasting cynical worldly man with virtuous but isolated country gentleman protagonist
- Julia de RoubignéNovel of unhappy marriage and ill-fated love between woman and her former betrothed