Radical Sensibility

<p>First published in 1993. <i>Radical Sensibility </i>provides a detailed account of the interrelations of literature ideas and history in the eighteenth century's Revolutionary decade. </p> <p>The book traces a continuity of ideas from Shaftesbury to Godwin and Wollstonecraft and sets it beside a conservative tradition established in the work of Hume and Adam Smith. As a guide to the transformations of 'sensibility' as a concept Jones examines the trajectories of three writers who work spans the decade: Charlotte Smith Helen Maria Williams and the early Wordsworth. </p> <p>A mixture of literary textual analysis and historical and political documentation <i>Radical Sensibility </i>will be important reading for students and teachers of poetry ideas and the novel. </p>