Download or read book Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility written by Maximillian E. Novak and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume attempts to explore some of the many aspects of sensibility throughout the Restoration and eighteenth century. The essays examine the fine distinctions between definitions of sensibility as well as a wide range of possibilities and implications involving political theory, imperial ambitions, homosocial codes of language, and the ways in which sensibility manifested itself in the literature of the period.