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Sexuality and the culture of sensibility in the British romantic era

Title: Sexuality and the culture of sensibility in the British romantic era / Christopher C. Nagle.
Author: Nagle, Christopher Carl.
Publication: New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

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Description

xi, 227 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Sensibility continually found new forms of expression in the late 18th and early 19th century. Nagle explores how it coexisted and intermingled with Romanticism and revises the traditional narratives of literary periodisation of this era.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references ( p. [155]-217) and index.

Contents

'The heart's best blood': Sterne and the promiscuous life of sensibility -- From trembling to tranquility: women writers and Wordsworth's pleasure principle -- Epistemologies of the romantic closet: Shakespeare, sexuality, and the myth of genius -- The social work of persuasion: Austen and the new sensorium -- Prometheus versus the man of feeling: Frankenstein, sensibility, and the uncertain future of romanticism (an allegory for literary history) -- Coda: Sentimental journeys: the afterlife of feeling in Landon and Tennyson.

ISBN

9781403984357
1403984352

LCCN

9781403984357

OCLC

ocn182519717
182519717
SCSB-14503391

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library