Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romantics : Essays in Honor of Jean H. HagstrumSyndy 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
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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 |
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Index | 225 |
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