Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility

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Maximillian E. Novak, Anne Kostelanetz Mellor
University of Delaware Press, 2000 - Literary Criticism - 276 pages
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

Introduction
5
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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