The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive

Paul Goring explores the eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. Through innovative readings of Sterne, Richardson

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhe

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientif

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Eur