Title Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel : the senses in social context / Ann Jessie Van Sant

Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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Description xv, 143 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Series Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought. ; [14] Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought. Contents Sympathetic visibility: philanthropic objects as instruments of pathos and demonstration -- Gazing on suffering: the provocation of response -- Revelation of the heart through entrapment and trial: Clarissa's story, Lovelace's plot -- The centrality of touch -- Locating experience in the body: microsensation -- Reading to the moment: a note on sensibility and narrative form Analysis English literature Special subjects Society Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-136) and index Subject Emotions in literature. English fiction -- 18th century -- History and criticism. Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century. Senses and sensation in literature. Sentimentalism in literature. LC no. 92005744 ISBN 0521402263

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