Sexuality and the culture of sensibility in the British romantic era /
[Book]
Christopher C. Nagle.
1st ed.
Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2007.
xi, 227 pages ;
22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-217) and index.
'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.
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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.
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Romanticism-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.