Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel: the senses in social context

Abstract

Introduction 1. Sympathetic visibility: philanthropic objects as instruments of pathos and demonstration 2. Gazing on suffering: the provocation of response 3. Revelation of the heart through entrapment and trial: Clarissa's story, Lovelace's plot 4. The centrality of touch 5. Locating experience in the body: microsensation 6. Reading to the moment: a note on sensibility and narrative form Bibliography.