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Beyond Sense and Sensibility - Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (Paperback)
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Beyond Sense and Sensibility - Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth (Paperback)
Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
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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.
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