Henry Mackenzie

The Man of Feeling

Novel depicting hypersensitive protagonist's painful encounters with human misery and suffering

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Henry Mackenzie
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.

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