Radical Sensibility

Literature and Ideas in the 1790s
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-64253-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 383 g

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Romanticism

First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century’s Revolutionary decade.

The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and sets it beside a conservative tradition established in the work of Hume and Adam Smith. As a guide to the transformations of ‘sensibility’ as a concept, Jones examines the trajectories of three writers who work spans the decade: Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and the early Wordsworth.

A mixture of literary textual analysis and historical and political documentation, Radical Sensibility will be important reading for students and teachers of poetry, ideas and the novel.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Abbreviated Titles; Introduction; 1. Varieties of Sensibility 2. Towards Revolution 3. Sensibility in Revolution: Godwin and Wollstonecraft 4. Sensibility in Reaction 5. Helen Maria Williams: Radical Chronicler 6. Charlotte Smith as Radical Novelist 7. Wordsworth and Sensibility; Notes; Bibliography; Index

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