The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Eighteenth-Century Culture explores the burgeoning eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive

Paul Goring explores the eighteenth-century fascination with the human body as an eloquent, expressive object. Through innovative readings of Sterne, Richardson

British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility argues that participants in the late eighteenth-century slavery debate developed a distinct sentimental rhe

This book investigates the figure of the military man in the long eighteenth century in order to explore how ideas about militarism served as vehicles for conce