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Drawing on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, the essays in Beyond Sense and Sensibility examine moral formation as represented in or implicitly produced by literary works of late eighteenth-century British authors.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword: In Memoriam O M Brack, Jr. (1938-2012)
Timothy Erwin
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Revisiting Sensibility
Chapter One: Boswell and the Limits of Sensibility
Adam Rounce
Chapter Two: "Beshrew the sombre pencil!": Robert Fergusson and Sensibility in Scotland
Rhona Brown
Chapter Three: Pictures of Women in Frances Burney's Cecilia and Camilla: How Cecilia Looks and What Camilla Sees
Heather King
Part II Rethinking Didacticism
Chapter Four: Artful Instruction: Philip Doddridge's Life of Colonel James Gardiner
Christopher D. Johnson
Chapter Five: Two Singularly Moral Works: Fenelon's The Adventure of Telemachus and Smollett's The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Leslie A. Chilton
Chapter Six: The Politically Engaged Child: Charlotte Smith's Children's Literature and the Discourse of Sensibility
Adrianne Wadewitz
Part III Reframing the Questions
Chapter Seven: Habit and Reason in Samuel Johnson's Rambler
Peggy Thompson
Chapter Eight: Unfelt Affect
James Noggle
Chapter Nine: Seeing into the Life of Things: Re-Viewing Early Wordsworth through Object-Oriented Philosophy
Evan Gottlieb
Works Cited
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Peggy Thompson is Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English at Agnes Scott College.
