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Radical Sensibility Literature and Ideas in the 1790s

By Chris Jones Copyright 1993
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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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