Affected sensibilities : romantic excess and the genealogy of the novel, 1680-1810 / Stephen Ahern.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ahern, Stephen.

Series:

AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 49.

[AMS studies in the eighteenth century ; no. 49]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Sentimentalism in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Romanticism.

Romance fiction, English.

Great Britain.

History.

Romance fiction, English--History and criticism.

Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.

Gothic revival (Literature).

Authorship--Sex differences.

Authorship.

Sex role in literature.

Physical Description:

239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : AMS Press, [2007]

Contents:

1. Toward a genealogy of sensibility narrative

2. "Glorious ruine" : romantic excess and the politics of sensibility in Behn's Love-letters

3. "Those trembling aking transports" : the erotics of sympathy in Haywood's Love in excess

4. "The distress of plenty" : Sterne's ethic of excess and A Sentimental journey

5. "Eloquent beyond the power of language" : staging sentimental communion in Mackenzie's The Man of feeling

6. Disciplining the sensible self : dialectics of passion and reason in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

7. Disenchanting sentimentality : Lewis's The Monk, moral agency, and the lie of romance

8. Epilogue "Do you think me most a knave or a fool?" : Austen, anti-romance, and the language of the heart

Notes:

Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228) and index.

ISBN:

9780404635497

0404635490

OCLC:

56753478