Sentimentalismus est usus sentimentalitatis, vel inclinatio ad se a sensibus contra rationem gubernandum.[1] Sentimentalismus ut modus litterarius fuit vulgata litterarum mundi proprietas, magni momenti in litteris Indiae, Sinarum, et Vietnamiae. Sentimentalismus Europaeus per Aevum Illuminationis ortus est, partim responsum sentimentalismo in philosophia datum. In Anglia saeculo duodevicensimo, mythistoria sentimentalis fuit maius litterarum genus.
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