Add to ORKGThe literary phenomenon of sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel denoted an ethical responsiveness in a character to the distress of others. Sensibility enabled a form of sociability that forged relationships of an individual to other individuals, and helped to imaginatively produce a larger community of strangers connected by affective bonds. It was described in terms of an unpremeditated and non-volitional immediacy. Yet especially since Mandeville’s writings that read self-interest in even the most admirable virtues of pity and compassion, many writings on man’s natural humanity had to defend against an inherent self-interest. This study examines four texts each of moral philosophy and novels to understand this dynamic. Eighteenth-...
For much of the eighteenth century in Europe, the concept of �sensibility� formed a bridge between n...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century asks what makes it pos...
"This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel discusses literary representations of suf...
This thesis questions the assumption that eighteenth-century sensibility is inherently social in ori...
Exemplary Affect: Sensibility and Melancholy in the Texts of Rousseau\u27s Readers contributes to t...
"Experiencing the Novel: The Genre of Tender Conscience" argues that a seismic shift in perceptions ...
This chapter places Burke's Philosophical Enquiry in its broader context of a culture of sensibility...
It was in the middle of the 18^ century that "sentiment" and "sensibility" became the key words of t...
Eighteenth-century British literature, science, and philosophy largely dealt with the issue of think...
This dissertation analyzes the seemingly incongruous relationship between Stoic ethics and Sentiment...
This thesis is a study of the discourse of sensibility in Romantic-period fiction. It suggests that ...
This thesis is a study of the discourse of sensibility in Romantic-period fiction. It suggests that ...
This thesis is a study of the discourse of sensibility in Romantic-period fiction. It suggests that ...
For much of the eighteenth century in Europe, the concept of �sensibility� formed a bridge between n...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century asks what makes it pos...
"This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century novel discusses literary representations of suf...
This thesis questions the assumption that eighteenth-century sensibility is inherently social in ori...
Exemplary Affect: Sensibility and Melancholy in the Texts of Rousseau\u27s Readers contributes to t...
"Experiencing the Novel: The Genre of Tender Conscience" argues that a seismic shift in perceptions ...
This chapter places Burke's Philosophical Enquiry in its broader context of a culture of sensibility...
It was in the middle of the 18^ century that "sentiment" and "sensibility" became the key words of t...
Eighteenth-century British literature, science, and philosophy largely dealt with the issue of think...
This dissertation analyzes the seemingly incongruous relationship between Stoic ethics and Sentiment...
This thesis is a study of the discourse of sensibility in Romantic-period fiction. It suggests that ...
This thesis is a study of the discourse of sensibility in Romantic-period fiction. It suggests that ...
This thesis is a study of the discourse of sensibility in Romantic-period fiction. It suggests that ...
For much of the eighteenth century in Europe, the concept of �sensibility� formed a bridge between n...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...
Much work has been done recently on the way late eighteenth and early nineteenth century British wom...