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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Sources and Editions
Introduction
1 Critical Readings of Eighteenth-Century French 'Sensibility': Literary History and the History of a Word
I Sensibility in Literary History and Criticism: Constructions of a Category
II The Shifting Meanings of the Word Sensibilité in the Eighteenth Century
2 The Power of Images: Sensibility, Communication, and Aesthetic Experience in Graffigny's Lettres d'une Péruvienne
3 Problems with the Passion of Pity, and Pitiful Passions: Love, Sex, and Sensibility in La Vie de Marianne
I Reading the Signs: La Vie de Marianne as a Novel of Sensibility?
II Pity, 'Love', and 'Lust': The Vocabulary of Sensibility and Libertinage
III The Passion of Pity and Pitiful Passions
IV Textual Images and Visual Readings: La Vie de Marianne and its Illustrations
4 (Re)Reading Sentimental Topoi, Scenes, and Spectacles in Julie
I Reading for the Part
II Narrative Causality: Forme et Signification
III Sequence and Subversion
Conclusion
Appendices
I Sensibilité in the Seventeenth Century
II List of illustrated volumes published 1935—46 by La Tradition
Bibliography
Index
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