Sensibility and the sentimental were a matter of informed and energetic debate in the second half of the eighteenth century, although no consensus was reached.
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The politics of sensibility
race, gender, and commerce in the sentimental novel
by Markman Ellis
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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 the emergence of anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of commerce, and the movement for the reformation of prostitutes.
By investigating the significance of political material in the fictional text, and by exploring the way in which the novels themselves take part in historical disputes, Ellis shows that the sentimental novel was a political tool of considerable cultural significance.
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Sentimentalism in literature, Politics and literature, Literature and society, Slavery in literature, History and criticism, Race in literature, Women and literature, English fiction, Sex in literature, History, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th centuryPlaces
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The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
July 29, 2004, Cambridge University Press
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The politics of sensibility: race, gender, and commerce in the sentimental novel
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