The culture of sensibility : sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain /

During the eighteenth century, "sensibility," which once denoted merely the receptivity of the senses, came to mean a particular kind of acute and well-developed consciousness invested with spiritual and moral values and largely identified with women. How this change occurred and what it m...

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Main Author: Barker-Benfield, G. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
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St. Catherine University

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University of St. Thomas

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University of Minnesota

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Call Number: HQ1593 .B37 1992