Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romantics : Essays in Honor of Jean H. Hagstrum

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Syndy M. Conger
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1990 - 235 pages
Focusing on the period from about 1690 to 1890, these essays depict an age of sensibility that was in transformation. New connections are revealed between sensibility and other key preoccupations of the age, including the feminine ideal and the poetic imagination.
 

Contents

Contributors
3
Introduction
7
Sensibility and the Art of Conversation Considered
19
Laurence Sternes Journal of the Pulse of Sensibility
37
Sensibility as Argument
57
Madness and Lust in the Age of Sensibility
79
What Kind of Heroine Is Mary Wollstonecraft?
97
Sensibility and the Walk of Reason Mary Wollstonecrafts Literary Reviews as Cultural Critique
114
Finance and Romance
141
The Poetics of Schiller and Wordsworth
166
De Quinceys System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosses Telescopes as an Inquiry into the Sublime
189
A Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources
202
A Chronological List of Works
220
Index
225
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