Sexuality and the Culture of Sensibility in the British Romantic Era

1. Introduction The Pleasures of Proximity
Christopher C. Nagle

2. ‘The Heart’s Best Blood’: Sterne and the Promiscuous Life of Sensibility
Christopher C. Nagle

3. From Trembling to Tranquility: Women Writers and Wordsworth’s Pleasure Principle
Christopher C. Nagle

4. Epistemologies of the Romantic Closet: Shakespeare, Sexuality, and the Myth of Genius
Christopher C. Nagle

5. The Social Work of Persuasion: Austen and the New Sensorium
Christopher C. Nagle

6. Prometheus Versus the Man of Feeling: Frankenstein, Sensibility, and the Uncertain Future of Romanticism (An Allegory for Literary History)
Christopher C. Nagle

7. Coda
Christopher C. Nagle

Nyckelord: Literature, Fiction, Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory