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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
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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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