Beyond Sense and Sensibility : Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth.
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- computer
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- 9781611486414
- 820.9005
- PR448.M67 -- B49 2015eb
Intro -- Contents -- 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 -- About the Contributors.
Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of late eighteenth-century British authors.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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