The pastoral novel is of Italian origin, like the sentimental novel.

You might just as well say that it is cruel to give girls sentimental novels because it makes them cry.

Austen's works criticized sentimental novels in the late eighteenth century, and are part of the change to nineteenth-century realism.

In Love and Freindship, she laughed at popular sentimental novels.

The novel situates itself between slave narratives and the sentimental novel.

In eighteenth-century England, the sentimental novel was a major literary genre.

The sentimental novel showed the effects of slavery.

Stowe's novel is different from other sentimental novels because she writes about a large theme like slavery.

One literary critic said that if the novel not been about slavery, "it would be just another sentimental novel".

She said that sentimental novels showed how women's emotions changed the world in a good way.