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Table of contents for Eighteenth-century sensibility and the novel : the senses in social context / Ann Jessie Van Sant.

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Introduction
1. Sympathetic visibility: philanthropic objects as instruments of pathos and demonstration
2. Gazing on suffering: the provocation of response
3. Revelation of the heart through entrapment and trial: Clarissa's story, Lovelace's plot
4. The centrality of touch
5. Locating experience in the body: microsensation
6. Reading to the moment: a note on sensibility and narrative form
Bibliography.

Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: English fiction 18th century History and criticism, Literature and society Great Britain History 18th century, Literature and science Great Britain History 18th century, Senses and sensation in literature, Sentimentalism in literature, Emotions in literature