Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s

by Chris Jones

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138642533
• ISBN13: 9781138642539
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"