The politics of sensibility: race, gender and commerce in the sentimental novel

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1997-01-01otherChoice Reviews Online425 citationsclosed

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Literature: history, themes, analysis American and British Literature Analysis Colonialism, slavery, and trade

Abstract

1. Sensibility, history and the novel 2. 'The house of bondage': sentimentalism and the problem of slavery 3. 'Delight in misery': sentimentalism, amelioration and slavery 4. 'An easy, speedy and universal medium': canals, commerce and virtue 5. 'Recovering the path of virtue': the politics of prostitution and the sentimental novel 6. 'The dangerous tendency of novels' and the controversy of sentimentalism.

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