C. Nagle 
Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era 

This is the first study to fully trace the influence of Sensibility on British Romanticism. Sensibility continually found new forms of expression in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century. Nagle explores how it coexisted and intermingled with Romanticism and revises the traditional narratives of literary periodization of this era.

Table of Content

The Pleasures of Proximity ‘The Heart’s Best Blood’: Sterne and the Promiscuous Life of Sensibility From Trembling to Tranquility: Women Writers and Wordsworth’s Pleasure Principle Epistemologies of the Romantic Closet: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and the Myth of Genius The Social Work of Persuasion: Austen and the New Sensorium Prometheus vs. the Man of Feeling: Frankenstein, Sensibility, and the Uncertain Future of Romanticism (An Allegory for Literary History) Sentimental Journeys: The Afterlife of Feeling in Landon and Tennyson

About the author

CHRISTOPHER C. NAGLE is Assistant Professor of English at Western Michigan University, USA.