Sexuality and the culture of sensibility in the British romantic era /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Christopher C. Nagle.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st ed.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Basingstoke :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2007.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xi, 227 pages ;
Dimensions
22 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-217) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
'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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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
English literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism.
Romanticism-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.