Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel: the senses in social context/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
c1993
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-136) and index. Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Sympathetic visibility: philanthropic objects asinstruments of pathos and demonstration -- 3. Gazing on suffering: theprovocation of response -- 4. Revelation of the heart throughentrapment and trial: Clarissa's story, Lovelace's plot -- 5. Thecentrality of touch -- 6. Locating experience in the body: the man offeeling -- 7. Reading to the moment: a note on sensibility andnarrative form. |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 143 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0521402263 |