Round 8: Tossup 1
Valerie Purton argued that a literary “tradition” described by this adjective was continued by Charles Dickens to accentuate his darker or comic scenes. Oliver Goldsmith criticized comedies described by this adjective as “the most easily written” in an essay that contrasts them with “laughing” comedies. A novel whose title contains this adjective ends mid-sentence as the protagonist catches hold of a chambermaid. This adjective describes a popular genre of emotionally expressive novels in the 18th and 19th centuries such as The Man of Feeling and The Vicar of Wakefield. A novel about Parson Yorick’s travels by Laurence Sterne is titled for this type of “Journey.” For 10 points, Gustave Flaubert’s novel about Frédéric Moreau is titled for what sort of “Education”? ■END■
ANSWER: sentimental [accept sentiment; accept Dickens and the Sentimental Tradition; accept A Comparison Between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy; accept A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; accept Sentimental Education; accept L’éducation sentimentale]
<Harvard A, British Literature> | Packet L - Harvard A, McGill A, Arizona State A, Georgia Tech B, Toronto D, Georgia Tech D
= Average correct buzzpoint
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