1st Edition
Changing Sentiments and the Magdalen Hospital Luxury, Virtue and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century Culture
By Mary Peace
Copyright 2017
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
218 Pages
9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book charts the complex ideological territory of eighteenth-century sentimental discourse through the uniquely revealing lens of the London Magdalen Hospital for Penitent Prostitutes. The establishment of the London Magdalen House in 1758 is read as the cultural high watermark of sentimental confidence in the compatibility of virtue and commerce. It is the product of a whiggish, moral-sense... Read more
1. The Radical Heart of Sentimentality: An Intervention into the Existing Critical Debate 2. Sentiment and Classical Republicanism 3. Richardson and the Problem of Sentimental Exceptionality 4. Sentiment and Taste 5. Sentiment and Religion: The Magdalen Hospital 6. 1770s and 1780s: Smith, Sentiment and Libertinism 7. The 1790s
Biography
Mary Peace is Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. She has published widely on sentimental discourse, sexuality, economics and religion in eighteenth-century culture.
