Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel the Senses in Social Context

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientific context of the period. The reader of novels shares with more scientific observers the activity of gazing on suffering, leading Ann Van Sant to explore the coincidence between the rhetoric of pathos and scientific presentation as they were applied to repentant prostitutes and children of the vagrant and criminal poor.Sant, Ann Jessie van is the author of 'Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel the Senses in Social Context', published 0012 under ISBN 9780521604581 and ISBN 0521604583.