Rousseau's autobiographical writings — his Confessions, which initiated the modern autobiography, and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker — exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility, featuring an increasing focus on subjectivity and introspection that has characterized the modern age.

Austen biographer, Claire Tomalin, argues that Sense and Sensibility has a " wobble in its approach ," which developed because Austen, in the course of writing the novel, gradually became less certain about whether sense or sensibility should triumph.

She has been a contestant on RTÉ's reality series Celebrity Bainisteoir, as well as other shows such as Sex & Sensibility.

Principal shooting set, as of February 12, 2010Dog River ( Rouleau, Saskatchewan ) has a population of " about 500 " according to " Census Sensibility.

In the years following those films, he has had leading roles in Sense and Sensibility ( 2008 ), Red Riding ( 2009 ), Nowhere Boy ( 2009 ) and Centurion ( 2010 ), and produced and starred in the crime drama Thorne ( 2010 ).

Late 18th and early 19th century London has been seen in a number of films, including Lady Hamilton ( 1941 ), Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ), A Bequest to the Nation ( 1973 ), Princess Caraboo ( 1994 ), Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), and the various versions of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Although the theme, together with the focus on character study and moral issues, is close to Austen's published work ( Sense and Sensibility was also originally written in the epistolary form ), its outlook is very different, and the heroine has few parallels in 19th-century literature.

She subverts all the standards of the romantic novel: she has an active role, she's not only beautiful but intelligent and witty, and her suitors are significantly younger than she is ( in contrast with Sense and Sensibility and Emma, which feature marriages of men who are sixteen years older than their wives ).

The occupation of her mind by the creature that collected minds has left her with shadows of those memories, including a deceased, didactic wizard named Sensibility Bustle, who translates any foreign word inside her head upon hearing or seeing it.

He has appeared in many British television works, as well as several feature films ( notably the role of John Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility ).

He has been married to Emma Thompson, who played Elinor in Sense and Sensibility, since 2003.

* In Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's character Mrs Jennings recommends a little Constantia for " its healing powers on a disappointed heart ".

Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the Novel: The senses in social context.

Sensibility is a vague word, covering an area of meaning rather than any precise talent, quality, or skill.

The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Sensibility: An introduction.

Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility.

A work of romantic fiction, Sense and Sensibility is set in southwest England between 1792 and 1797, and portrays the life and loves of the Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne.

She later changed the form to a narrative and the title to Sense and Sensibility.

* Sense and Sensibility – Full text with audio and translations.

The game is also mentioned in her books Mansfield Park, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.

Influenced by Shaftesbury and his followers, 18th-century readers, particularly in England, were swept up by the cult of Sensibility that grew up around Shaftesbury's concepts of sympathy and benevolence.

O ' Hara in An Awfully Big Adventure and Colonel Brandon in Ang Lee's 1995 film Sense and Sensibility.

Jane Austen used the pseudonym " A Lady " as the author of her first novel Sense and Sensibility.

Northanger Abbey was the first of Jane Austen's novels to be completed for publication, though she had previously made a start on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.

Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility.

Laurie ’ s later film appearances include Sense and Sensibility ( 1995 ), adapted by and starring Emma Thompson ; the Disney live-action film 101 Dalmatians ( 1996 ), where he played Jasper, one of the bumbling criminals hired to kidnap the puppies ; Elton ’ s adaptation of his novel Inconceivable, Maybe Baby ( 2000 ); Girl From Rio ; the 2004 remake of The Flight of the Phoenix ; and the three Stuart Little films.

* Katherine M. Rogers, " Sensibility and Feminism: The Novels of Frances Brooke ," Genre 11, no.

Barbauld's literary career spanned numerous periods in British literary history: her work promoted the values of both the Enlightenment and Sensibility, and her poetry was foundational to the development of British Romanticism.

Nervous Acts: Essays on Literature, Culture and Sensibility.

The three great results of psychological observation are Sensibility, Activity or Liberty, and Reason.

1 Science and Sensibility – essays largely concerning science and the scientific method.

The year 1811 in literature involved some significant new books, including Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility.

Sensibility, however, is still more in need of being guided by reason.

The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

In a mere half-century the South has more than tripled its urban status.

Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist.

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

But while the corporation has all the disadvantages of the socialist form of organization ( so cumbersome it cannot constructively do much of anything not compatible with its need to perpetuate itself and maintain its status quo ), unluckily it does not have the desirable aspect of socialism, the motivation to operate for the benefit of society as a whole.

Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.

It has lost its ground of being and floats in a mist of appearances.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

This life has its own currents and rhythms, its own multiple cycles and adaptations.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

One of the most salient features of literary value has been deemed to be its influence upon and organization of emotion.

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

Ramillies And The Union With Scotland has fewer high spots than Blenheim and much less of its dramatic unity.