Politics of Sensibility

Auteur: Ellis, Markman (Queen Mary University of London)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
Markman Ellis contests the enduring view that the sentimental novel is concerned only with displays of refined feeling. He analyses such fiction's engagement in public controversies of the late eighteenth century: emerging anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of commerce, and the movement to reform prostitution.

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Markman Ellis contests the enduring view that the sentimental novel is concerned only with displays of refined feeling. He analyses such fiction's engagement in public controversies of the late eighteenth century: emerging anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of commerce, and the movement to reform prostitution.
ISBN / EAN 9780521604277
Auteur Ellis, Markman (Queen Mary University of London)
Editeur Cambridge University Press