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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808896503321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

1-61148-642-4

1-61148-641-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Collana

Transits : literature, thought and culture, 16501850

Disciplina

820.9005

Soggetti

English literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Moral education - Great Britain

Moral development - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Sommario/riassunto

<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>