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The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel

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The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel - Ellis, Markman
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The sentimental novel has long been noted for its liberal and humanitarian interests, but also for its predilection for refined feeling, the privilege it accords emotion over reason, and its preference for the private over the public sphere. In The Politics of Sensibility, however, Markman Ellis argues that sentimental fiction also consciously participated in some of the most keenly contested public controversies of the late eighteenth century, including the emergence of anti-slavery opinion, discourse on the morality of ...

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The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel 2004, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521604277

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The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender and Commerce in the Sentimental Novel 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521552219

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