Passionate Encounters in a Time of Sensibility

by Novak, Maximillian E.; Mellor, Anne K.

• ISBN13: 9780874137033
• ISBN10: 0874137039
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Univ of Delaware Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	7	(4)
Introduction	11	(16)
Maximillian E. Novak
Anne Mellor
Restoration Sensibility: Plotting the Shaftesburys	27	(33)
Julie Ellison
Civility, Ceremony, and Desire at Beijing: Sensibility and the European Quest for ``Free Trade'' with China in the Late Seventeenth Century	60	(29)
Robert Markley
Paraleipomenon or The Thing Left Out: Women's Bodies as the Location of Experience	89	(17)
Ann Jessie Van Sant
From Socrates to Sarah Fielding: Benevolence, Irony, and Conversation	106	(21)
G. A. Starr
``What is this secret sin?'' Sexuality and Secrecy in the Writings of Horace Walpole	127	(23)
George E. Haggerty
The Business of Tragedy: Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de Roubigne	150	(24)
David Marshall
Suicide, Murder, and Sensibility: The Case of Sir Herbert Croft's Love and Madness	174	(19)
Maximillian E. Novak
``The sorrow of seeing the Queen'': Mary Queen of Scots and the British History of Sensibility, 1707--1789	193	(28)
Jayne Lewis
The Hero of Sensibility in a Commercial Romance: Scott's Rob Roy	221	(26)
Everett Zimmerman
Sense and Sensibility and Postmodern Ethics	247	(18)
Andrew Gibson
Bibliography on Sensibility, 1978--1998	265	(4)
Contributors	269	(4)
Index	273