Preface

Introduction

Maximillian E. Novak

Anne Mellor

Restoration Sensibility: Plotting the Shaftesburys

Julie Ellison

Civility, Ceremony, and Desire at Beijing: Sensibility and the European Quest for ``Free Trade'' with China in the Late Seventeenth Century

Robert Markley

Paraleipomenon or The Thing Left Out: Women's Bodies as the Location of Experience

Ann Jessie Van Sant

From Socrates to Sarah Fielding: Benevolence, Irony, and Conversation

G. A. Starr

``What is this secret sin?'' Sexuality and Secrecy in the Writings of Horace Walpole

George E. Haggerty

The Business of Tragedy: Accounting for Sentiment in Julia de Roubigne

David Marshall

Suicide, Murder, and Sensibility: The Case of Sir Herbert Croft's Love and Madness

Maximillian E. Novak

``The sorrow of seeing the Queen'': Mary Queen of Scots and the British History of Sensibility, 1707--1789

Jayne Lewis

The Hero of Sensibility in a Commercial Romance: Scott's Rob Roy

Everett Zimmerman

Sense and Sensibility and Postmodern Ethics

Andrew Gibson

Bibliography on Sensibility, 1978--1998

Contributors

Index