The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

by Markman Ellis

Book Overview

The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined feeling, the privilege it accords emotion over reason, and its preference for the private over the public sphere. In The Politics of Sensibility, however, Markman Ellis argues that sentimental fiction also consciously participated in some of the most keenly contested public controversies of the late eighteenth century, including...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521604273
• ISBN13: 9780521604277
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"