Beyond sense and sensibility : moral formation and the literary imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth / Peggy Thompson.
Thompson, Peggy, 1952 July 28- editor.
2015
PR448.P5 B49 2015 (Mapit)
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Title Beyond sense and sensibility : moral formation and the literary imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth / Peggy Thompson.
ISBN 9781611486421 (paperback)
9781611486407 (hardcover)
1611486408 (hardcover)
9781611486414 (electronic book)
Published Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2015]
Copyright ©2015
Language English
Description xv, 214 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Call Number PR448.P5 B49 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification 801/.95
Summary During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How reliable or desirable is feeling as a moral guide or a test of character? How does such a focus contribute to moral isolation and elitism or, conversely, social connectedness and inclusion? How can we distinguish between that connectedness and a disciplinary socialization? How do insensible processes contribute to our moral formation and action? What alternatives lie beyond the anthropomorphism implied by sense and sensibility? Drawing extensively on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, this volume of essays examines moral formation represented in or implicitly produced by a range of texts, including Boswell's literary criticism, Fergusson's poetry, Burney's novels, Doddridge's biography, Smollett's novels, Charlotte Smith's children's books, Johnson's essays, Gibbon's history, and Wordsworth's poetry. The distinctive conceptual and textual breadth of Beyond Sense and Sensibility yields a rich reassessment and augmentation of the two perspectives summarized by the terms sense and sensibility in later eighteenth-century Britain.--Publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-204) and index.
Added Author Thompson, Peggy, 1952 July 28- editor.
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Forewords: in memoriam O M Brack Jr. (1938-2012) / Timothy Erwin
Part I : Revisiting sensibility
Boswell and the limits of sensibility / Adam Rounce
"Beshrew the sombre pencil!": Robert Fergusson and sensibility in Scotland / Rhona Brown
Pictures of women in Frances Burney's Cecilia and Camilla: How Cecilia looks and what Camilla sees / Heather King
Part II: rethinking didacticism
Artful instruction: Philip Doddridge's life of colonel James Gardiner / Christopher D. Johnson
Two singularly moral works: Fenelon's the adventure of Telemachus and Smollett's the Expedition of Humphry Clinker / Leslie A. Chilton
The politically engaged child: Charlotte Smith's children's literature and the discourse of sensibility / Adrianne Wadewitz
Part III: Reframing the questions
Habit and reason in Samuel Johnson's Rambler / Peggy Thompson
Unfelt Affect / James Noggle
Seeing into the life of things: re-viewing early Wordsworth through object-oriented philosophy / Evan Gottlieb.

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