Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility

by Maximillian E. Novak (Editor), Anne K. Mellor (Editor)

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.

276 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

University of California, Los Angeles, English, Faculty Member