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Author:

Barker-Benfield, G. J.

Title:

The culture of sensibility : sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain / G.J. Barker-Benfield.

Edition:

Paperback ed.

Publisher:

University of Chicago Press,

Copyright Date:

1996, c1992

Description:

xxxiv, 520 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Women--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Women--History--History--18th century.
Men--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Men--History--History--18th century.
Emotions.
Sex role--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Great Britain--Social conditions--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [397]-503) and index.

Contents:

Sensibility and the nervous system -- The reformation of male manners -- The question of effeminacy -- Women and eighteenth-century consumerism -- A culture of reform -- Women and individualism : inner and outer struggles over sensibility -- Wollstonecraft and the crisis over sensibility in the 1790s.

ISBN:

9780226037141 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226037142 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34180118

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)