The Culture of Sensibility(English, Paperback, Barker-Benfield G. J.)

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The Culture of Sensibility(English, Paperback, Barker-Benfield G. J.) is written by Barker-Benfield G. J. and published by The University of Chicago Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0226037142 (ISBN 10) and 9780226037141 (ISBN 13).

G. J. Barker-Benfield documents the emergence of the culture of sensibility that transformed British society of the eighteenth century. His account focuses on the rise of new moral and spiritual values and the struggle to redefine the group identities of men and women. Drawing on the full spectrum of eighteenth-century thought from Adam Smith to John Locke, from the Earl of Shaftesberry to Dr. George Cheyne, and especially Mary Wollstonecraft, Barker-Benfield offers an innovative and compelling way to understand how Britain entered the modern age.