Sade’s Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas about subjectivity, identi

This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European t

If moods are as contagious as colds, and wickedness as debilitating as a bad diet, inquiries into assorted discourses in 18th-century France still have much to

Sensibility in the Early Modern Era investigates how the early modern characterisation of sensibility as a natural property of the body could give way to comple

This study of sensibility in the eighteenth-century English novel discusses literary representations of suffering and responses to it in the social and scientif