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Cultural history

the eighteenth-century British cultivation of refined feeling, sympathy and nervous susceptibility, tied to new gender roles and consumption.

In cultural history, culture of sensibility refers to the eighteenth-century British cultivation of refined feeling, sympathy and nervous susceptibility, tied to new gender roles and consumption. This meaning comes from Barker-Benfield (1992) in The Culture of Sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain.[1]

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References

Barker-Benfield, G. J. (1992). The Culture of Sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226037134

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