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This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientif
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Literary historians have tended to associate the eighteenth century with the rise of the tyranny of the clock—the notion of time as ruled by mechanical chrono
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What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This
The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Language: en
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The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive
The Culture of Sensibility
Language: en
Pages: 554
Authors: G. J. Barker-Benfield
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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During the eighteenth century, "sensibility," which once denoted merely the receptivity of the senses, came to mean a particular kind of acute and well-develope