Affected sensibilities : romantic excess and the genealogy of the novel, 1680-1810 /
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| Author / Creator: | Ahern, Stephen. |
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| Imprint: | New York : AMS Press, c2007. |
| Description: | 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 49] |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7685330 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Toward a genealogy of sensibility narrative
- 2. "Glorious ruine" : romantic excess and the politics of sensibility in Behn's Love-letters
- 3. "Those trembling aking transports" : the erotics of sympathy in Haywood's Love in excess
- 4. "The distress of plenty" : Sterne's ethic of excess and A Sentimental journey
- 5. "Eloquent beyond the power of language" : staging sentimental communion in Mackenzie's The Man of feeling
- 6. Disciplining the sensible self : dialectics of passion and reason in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho
- 7. Disenchanting sentimentality : Lewis's The Monk, moral agency, and the lie of romance
- 8. Epilogue "Do you think me most a knave or a fool?" : Austen, anti-romance, and the language of the heart
