Passionate Encounters in a Time of SensibilityMaximillian E. Novak, Anne Kostelanetz Mellor This volume attempts to explore some of the many aspects of sensibility throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century. The essays examine the fine distinctions between definitions of sensibility as well as a wide range of possibilities and implications involving political theory, imperial ambitions, homosocial codes of language, and the ways in which sensibility manifested itself in the literature of the period. |
Contents
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Plotting the Shaftesburys | 21 |
Sensibility and the European Quest for Free Trade with China in the Late Seventeenth Century | 54 |
Womens Bodies as the Location of Experience | 83 |
Benevolence Irony and Conversation | 100 |
What is this secret sin? Sexuality and Secrecy in the Writings of Horace Walpole | 121 |
Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de Roubigne | 144 |
The Case of Sir Herbert Crofts Love and Madness | 168 |
Mary Queen of Scots and the British History of Sensibility 17071789 | 187 |
Scotts Rob Roy | 215 |
Sense and Sensibility and Postmodern Ethics | 241 |
Bibliography on Sensibility 19781998 | 259 |
Contributors | 263 |
Index | 267 |
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