After being rebuffed by the philanderer John Willoughby and getting engaged to Colonel Brandon, Marianne Dashwood finds a happy medium between embodying this quality and expressing its counterpart, possessed by her sister Elinor.
This quality is hailed as the "sweet precursor of the gen'rous deed" in a satiric "poetical epistle" that Hannah More addressed to the "bluestocking" Frances Boscawen. G.J. Barker-Benfield's literary study of the "culture" of this quality describes the folk belief that it was the byproduct of overactive nerves. In Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft savages the "cult of" this quality for enslaving women to love. (*) Sentimental novels such as Fanny Burney's Evelina were also known as "novels of" this quality. After being rebuffed by the philanderer John Willoughby and getting engaged to Colonel Brandon, Marianne Dashwood finds a happy medium between embodying this quality and expressing its counterpart, possessed by her sister Elinor. For 10 points, name this predisposition to deep emotional response to art, which Jane Austen paired with "Sense."
This quality is hailed as the "sweet precursor of the gen'rous deed" in a satiric "poetical epistle" that Hannah More addressed to the "bluestocking" Frances Boscawen.
sensibility