Narcissus and Cain
David Bromwich, 6 August 1992
Mary and Maria by Mary Wollstonecraft, Matilda by Mary Shelley
edited by Janet Todd.
Pickering & Chatto, 217 pp., £24.95, January 1992,1 85196 023 6 Show More
edited by Janet Todd.
Pickering & Chatto, 217 pp., £24.95, January 1992,
Lady Sophia Sternheim
by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn.
Pickering & Chatto, 216 pp., £24.95, January 1992,9781851960217 Show More
by Sophie von La Roche, edited by James Lynn.
Pickering & Chatto, 216 pp., £24.95, January 1992,
“... Sensibility’ was the name of a faculty before it was the name of a style. On the divide of the physical and mental, it suggested a power to receive life’s pleasures and pains, and a less certain power to judge their worth. Such was the critical usage of the late 18th century, largely derived from Hume. Popular usage went further and has lasted longer ... ”