The Politics of Sensibility
Subtitle: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 29, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780521604277
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 16th to 18th centuries; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literary Criticism; British Isles; Eastern European; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English fiction--18th century--History and cr; English fiction--18th century--History and criticism; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-Eastern European
First sentence: Sensibility and the sentimental were a matter of informed and energetic debate in the second half of the eighteenth century, although no consensus was reached.