Information on Information (Electronic and Otherwise)
Included here is a list of materials that you may find useful
for your work in the class. Some of these are paper materials, some are
electronic. Of the latter, some
are located locally (at UVA) while others are at remote sites that can be
accessed electronically.
Electronic Resources from the UVa Library:
Electronic Resources from Other Libraries:
Bibliography on Sensibility (paper-based))
- Barker-Benfield, G. J. THE CULTURE OF SENSIBILITY: SEX AND SOCIETY IN
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
- Braudy, Leo. "The Form of the Sentimental Novel." NOVEL 7 (1973): 5-13.
- Bredvold, Louis I. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SENSIBILITY. Detroit: Wayne State
UP, 1962.
- Brissenden, R. F. VIRTUE IN DISTRESS: STUDIES IN THE NOVEL OF SENTIMENT FROM
RICHARDSON TO SADE. New York: Harper & Row, 1974.
- Conger, Syndy McMillen, ed. SENSIBILITY IN TRANSFORMATION: CREATIVE
RESISTANCE TO SENTIMENT FROM THE AUGUSTANS TO THE ROMANTICS. Ruther-\
ford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1990.
- Crane, R. S. "Suggestions toward a Genealogy of the 'Man of Feeling.'" ELH
1 (1934): 205-30.
- Erametsa, Eric. A STUDY OF THE WORD "SENTIMENTAL" AND OF OTHER LINGUISTIC
CHARACTERISTICS OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SENTIMENTALISM IN ENGLISH LITER-
ATURE. Helsinki, 1951.
- Frye, Northrop. "Towards Defining an Age of Sensibility." EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE: ESSAYS IN MODERN CRITICISM. Ed. James L.
Clifford. New York: Oxford UP, 1959. 311-18.
- Greene, Donald. "Latitudinarianism and Sensibility: The Genealogy of the
'Man of Feeling' Reconsidered." MODERN PHILOLOGY 75 (1977): 159-83.
- Hagstrum, Jean H. SEX AND SENSIBILITY: IDEAL AND EROTIC LOVE FROM MILTON
TO MOZART. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
- Hume, David. A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE. 1739. Ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge.
2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1978.
- Johnson, Claudia L. EQUIVOCAL BEINGS: POLITICS, GENDER, AND SENTIMENTALITY
IN THE 1790S. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.
- Jones, Chris RADICAL SENSIBILITY. LITERATURE AND IDEAS IN THE 1790s
(London: Routledge, 1993)
- McGann, Jerome. POETICS OF SENSIBILITY. A
REVOLUTION IN LITERARY STYLE. Oxford: Oxford UP, forthcoming 1996.
- Markley, Robert. "Sentimentality as Performance: Shaftesbury, Sterne, and
the Theatrics of Virtue." THE NEW EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THEORY, POLITICS,
ENGLISH LITERATURE. Ed. Felicity Nussbaum and Laura Brown. New York:
Methuen, 1987. 210-30.
- Marshall, David. THE FIGURE OF THEATER: SHAFTESBURY, DEFOE, ADAM SMITH, AND
GEORGE ELIOT. New York: Columbia UP, 1986.
- ---. THE SURPRISING EFFECTS OF SYMPATHY: MARIVAUX, DIDEROT, ROUSSEAU, AND
MARY SHELLEY. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
- Mullan, John. SENTIMENT AND SOCIABILITY: THE LANGUAGE OF FEELING IN THE
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Oxford: Clarendon, 1988.
- Poovey, Mary. THE PROPER LADY AND THE WOMAN WRITER: IDEOLOGY AS STYLE IN
THE WORKS OF MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARY SHELLEY, AND JANE AUSTEN.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.
- Shaftesbury, Anmthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of. CHARACTERISTICKS OF
MEN, MANNERS, OPINIONS, TIMES. 1711. Ed. John M. Robertson. 2 vols.
1900.
- Smith, Adam. THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS. 1759. Indianapolis: Liberty Clas-
sics, 1976.
- Spacks, Patricia Meyer. DESIRE AND TRUTH: FUNCTIONS OF PLOT IN EIGHTEENTH-
CENTURY ENGLISH NOVELS. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1990.
- ---. "Oscillations of Sensibility." NEW LITERARY HISTORY 25 (1994): 505-
20.
- Starr, George A. "'Only a Boy': Notes on Sentimental Novels." GENRE 10
(1977): 501-27.
- Todd, Janet. SENSIBILITY: AN INTRODUCTION. New York: Methuen, 1986.
- Van Sant, Ann Jessie. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SENSIBILITY AND THE NOVEL: THE
SENSES IN SOCIAL CONTEXT. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993.
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