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Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era Author(s) Christopher C. Nagle Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication Year 2007 ISBN 978-1403984357 Link Amazon.com Abstract 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. Table of Contents The Pleasures of Proximity ‘The Heart’s Best Blood’: Sterne and the Promiscuous Life of Sensibility From Trembling to Tranquility: Women Writers and Wordsworth’s Pleasure Principle Epistemologies of the Romantic Closet: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and the Myth of Genius The Social Work of Persuasion: Austen and the New Sensorium Prometheus vs. the Man of Feeling: Frankenstein, Sensibility, and the Uncertain Future of Romanticism (An Allegory for Literary History) Sentimental Journeys: The Afterlife of Feeling in Landon and Tennyson

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