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- Title
Sensibility as Epistemology in Caleb Williams, Waverley, and Frankenstein.
- Authors
Bour, Isabelle
- Abstract
This article focuses on the ethical-epistemological model of sensibility that has become insufficient as an account of the human mind in the novels "Caleb Williams," "Waverley" and "Frankenstein." "Caleb Williams" combines a topical political discussion of social inequality with a new kind of interest in the human psyche, an interest in the historical development of the mind. "Waverley" links the decline of sensibility with that of an arbitrary aristocratic order but sensibility is thematically central to the delineation of the two main characters, Frankenstein and the creature.
- Subjects
SENSES; ETHICS; THEORY of knowledge; THINGS As They Are: Or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (Book : Godwin); WAVERLEY (Book : Scott); FRANKENSTEIN: Or, the Modern Prometheus (Book); PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
SEL: Studies in English Literature (Johns Hopkins), 2005, Vol 45, Issue 4, p813
- ISSN
0039-3657
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/sel.2005.0035