Beyond sense and sensibility : moral formation and the literary imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth / edited by Peggy Thompson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thompson, Peggy, editor.

Series:

Transits (Bucknell University)

Transits : literature, thought and culture, 16501850

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784.

Johnson, Samuel.

Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.

Wordsworth, William.

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

English literature.

Moral education--Great Britain.

Moral education.

Moral development--Great Britain.

Moral development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lewisburg [Pennsylvania] : Bucknell University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span>Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in </span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Beyond Sense and Sensibility </span><span>examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of late eighteenth-century British authors.</span></span>

Contents:

CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Part I: REVISITING SENSIBILITY; Chapter 1: BOSWELL AND THE LIMITS OF SENSIBILITY; Chapter 2: "BESHREW THE SOMBRE PENCIL!"; Chapter 3: PICTURES OF WOMEN IN FRANCES BURNEY'S CECILIA AND CAMILLA; Part II: RETHINKING DIDACTICISM; Chapter 4: ARTFUL INSTRUCTION; Chapter 5: TWO SINGULARLY MORAL WORKS; Chapter 6: THE POLITICALLY ENGAGED CHILD; Part III: REFRAMING THE QUESTIONS; Chapter 7: HABIT AND REASON IN SAMUEL JOHNSON'S RAMBLER; Chapter 8: UNFELT AFFECT; Chapter 9: SEEING INTO THE LIFE OF THINGS; NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX

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Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 11, 2015).

ISBN:

979-82-16-35612-7

1-61148-642-4

1-61148-641-6