Affected sensibilities

Affected sensibilities

by Stephen Ahern

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"This book offers a groundbreaking reconsideration of the history of the English novel. Ahern develops the provocative thesis that the amatory, sentimental, and Gothic fictional forms that dominate the marketplace in the early years of the novel are deeply connected by a concern with sensibility, a capacity for living intensely that is largely determined by class and gender. In all three of these fictional forms, a pervasive yet ambivalent unease over intense feeling testifies to the persistence of a conflicted romantic aesthetic well into the second century in the history of the novel"--BOOK JACKET.

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    How does Stephen Ahern’s framing of "sensibility" as a capacity for living intensely change the way you view the characters and conflicts in early English novels?

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    In your own life, how do you balance the pressure to remain rational with the urge to experience emotions deeply and intensely?

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    Ahern argues that the amatory, sentimental, and Gothic genres are deeply connected by their anxiety over intense feeling; which of these three literary forms do you find most effective at capturing the complexities of human emotion, and why?

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