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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.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.
©1992

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Location Call No. Status
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.30941 B255C    Check Shelf
Edition Paperback edition.
Description xxxiv, 520 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [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.
Subject Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Women -- Psychology -- History -- 18th century.
Men -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Men -- Psychology -- History -- 18th century.
Emotions.
Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
ISBN 0226037142 paperback alkaline paper
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