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Article: Sensibility as epistemology in Caleb Williams, Waverley, and Frankenstein.
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- Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900
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- September 22, 2005
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While critics of the last fifteen years have exhibited renewed interest in sensibility, they have concentrated on the paradigm at its apex rather than in its decline. This essay will argue that Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin, Waverley (1814) by Walter Scott, and Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley should be read in a counterintuitive way as end-of-sensibility novels, as works depicting how the ethical-epistemological model of sensibility has become insufficient as an account of the human mind, yet at the same time acts as a ferment for a new representation of the psyche and of man as a social being. (1) To put it differently, I shall see sensibility as both an ...
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