Sensibility in Transformation: Creative Resistance to Sentiment from the Augustans to the Romantics : Essays in Honor of Jean H. HagstrumSyndy M. Conger Fairleigh Dickinson University 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. |
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Contributors | 9 |
Sensibility and the Art | 25 |
Laurence Sternes Journal | 43 |
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