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The Novel of Sensibility in the 1780s
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This chapter studies the novels of sensibility in the 1780s. The philosophy of John Locke, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson had influenced the first wave of epistolary novels of sensibility beginning in the 1740s. These explored the interaction between emotion and reason in producing moral actions. Response to stimuli was minutely examined, especially the relationship between the psychological and physiological manifestations of feelings. Later in the century, and, in particular during the late 1780s when the novel enjoyed a surge in popularity, the capacity for fine feeling became increasingly valued for its own sake rather than moralized. Ultimately, sensibility should be seen as a long-lasting literary movement rather than an ephemeral fashion. It put paternal authority and conventional modes of masculinity under question.
Title: The Novel of Sensibility in the 1780s
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This chapter studies the novels of sensibility in the 1780s.
The philosophy of John Locke, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, Adam Smith, and Francis Hutcheson had influenced the first wave of epistolary novels of sensibility beginning in the 1740s.
These explored the interaction between emotion and reason in producing moral actions.
Response to stimuli was minutely examined, especially the relationship between the psychological and physiological manifestations of feelings.
Later in the century, and, in particular during the late 1780s when the novel enjoyed a surge in popularity, the capacity for fine feeling became increasingly valued for its own sake rather than moralized.
Ultimately, sensibility should be seen as a long-lasting literary movement rather than an ephemeral fashion.
It put paternal authority and conventional modes of masculinity under question.
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