 | Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s Subjects: Critical Concepts; History and Politics; Culture; Genre; Language & Literature; The Sublime; Nature; Revolutionary Controversy; Philosophy; Gender and Sexuality; The Novel; Imagination; Revolution; Childhood; Satire and Parody; Poetry; Literature; Women Writers; French Revolution; Literary History; Literary Genres; Literature by Period; First published in 1993. Radical Sensibility provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature, ideas and history in the eighteenth century's Revolutionary decade. The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft, and sets it beside a conservative tradition established in the work of Hume and Adam Smith. As a guide to the transformations of 'sensibility' as a concept, Jones examines the trajectories of three writers who work spans the decade: Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, and the early Wordsworth. A mixture of literary textual analysis and historical and political documentation, Radical Sensibility will be important reading for students and teachers of poetry, ideas and the novel. Multivolume collection by leading authors in the field |
