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Palgrave Macmillan is pleased to announce the publication of _Sexuality and the
Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era_ by Christopher C. Nagle.
Drawing together theoretically informed literary history and the cultural
history of sexuality, friendship, and affective relations, this is the first
study to trace fully the influence of this notorious yet often undervalued
cultural tradition on British Romanticism, a movement that both draws on and
resists Sensibility's excessive embodiments of non-normative pleasure. Offering
a broad consideration of literary genres while balancing the contributions of
both canonical and non-canonical male and female writers, this bold new study
insists on the need to revise the traditional boundaries of literary periods
and establishes unexpected influences on both Romantic and early Victorian
culture and their shared pleasures of attachment.
The book can be ordered directly from Palgrave:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=1403984352
Product details
Hardcover: 227 pages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (13 October 2007)
ISBN-10: 1-4039-8435-2
ISBN-13: 978-1403984357
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Pleasures of Proximity
Ch.1: ‘The Heart’s Best Blood’: Sterne and the
Promiscuous Life of Sensibility
Ch.2: From Trembling to Tranquility: Women Writers and Wordsworth’s
Pleasure Principle
Ch.3: Epistemologies of the Romantic Closet: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and
the Myth of Genius
Ch.4: The Social Work of Persuasion: Austen and the New Sensorium
Ch.5: Prometheus vs. the Man of Feeling: Frankenstein, Sensibility,
and the Uncertain Future of Romanticism (An Allegory for Literary History)
Coda: Sentimental Journeys: The Afterlife of Feeling in Landon and
Tennyson
*Pre-publication reviews are available on the website as well.
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