Sensibility

Shamela (1741) challenges the disinterestedness of authentic female emotion, while Hannah More's critique in "Sensibility: A Poem" (1782) targets the potentially fake and equivocal body-language that is generally assumed to express genuine feeling.

Ildiko Csengei 2008

Tave has claimed: Sense and Sensibility is the story of Elinor Dashwood.

Notes on 'Money, Matrimony, and Memory: Secondary Heroines in Radcliffe, Austen, and Cooper' 2006

Sense and Sensibility is great, but in my mind I'm afraid the movie has made it a little too sweet and less cutting; not the book's fault, alas.

March 14th, 2005 2005

Sensibility is here defined in terms of class status.

Colonial Correspondence: The Letters of George Bogle from Bengal, Bhutan and Tibet, 1770-81 2000

(Jerome McGann's The Poetics of Sensibility is an important exception.)

Passion and Romantic Poetics 1998

In its later editions, "Sense and Sensibility" is announced as "by the Author of 'Pride and Prejudice,'" and when "Pride and Prejudice" itself first appeared it was announced as "By the Author of 'Sense and Sensibility.'"

Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends 1901

Cultural 'Sensibility' - that word one shouldn't use because someone mightn't know its meaning - is under a general anaesthetic.

Pelleas premonitions Jessica 2004

Cultural 'Sensibility' - that word one shouldn't use because someone mightn't know its meaning - is under a general anaesthetic.

Archive 2004-06-01 Jessica 2004

I wish I could be as enthusiastic about the adaptation of Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, which is currently on display at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

George Heymont: Of Tempests and Teapots George Heymont 2011

I wish I could be as enthusiastic about the adaptation of Jane Austen's first published novel, Sense and Sensibility, which is currently on display at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts.

George Heymont: Of Tempests and Teapots George Heymont 2011