Vibrations
Margaret Anne Doody, 5 August 1993
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in 18th-century Britain
by G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992,0 226 03713 4 Show More
by G.J. Barker-Benfield.
Chicago, 520 pp., £39.95, October 1992,
Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The Senses in Social Context
by Ann Jessie van Sant.
Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993,0 521 40226 3 Show More
by Ann Jessie van Sant.
Cambridge, 143 pp., £27.95, January 1993,
Drunks, Whores and Idle Apprentices: Criminal Biographies of the 18th Century
by Philip Rawlings.
Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992,0 415 05056 1 Show More
by Philip Rawlings.
Routledge, 222 pp., £40, October 1992,
Mother Clap’s Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830
by Rictor Norton.
Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992,0 85449 188 0 Show More
by Rictor Norton.
Gay Men’s Press, 302 pp., £12.95, September 1992,
“... sensibility or sentiment, and if there is no reference to David Hartley I close the volume. G.J. Barker-Benfield passes the test – his index lists Hartley as well as Shaftesbury, Hume, Adam Smith and, of course, Locke, for even the non-philosophical usually know that a brief reference to Locke must be included. ... ”
