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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Sensibility andthe Nervous System Wollstonecraft's Perspective: The Gendering of SensibilityA New Psychoperceptual System The Application of the New System: GeorgeCheyne, 1671-1743 The Reformation of Manners Combined with Consumerism NerveTheory in Novels Female Nerves and Sensibility's Ambiguity 2: The Reformationof Male Manners The Public Manners of Men The Campaign for the Reformation ofManners Heart Religion The Civilizing Process and British CommercialCapitalism Changed Environments and the New World of Parents and Children 3:The Question of Effeminacy Shaftesbury Mandeville Hume and Smith HenryMacKenzie Politics and Boys' Literature: Thomas Day. 4: Women andEighteenth-Century Consumerism Home Demand Women Become Literate, Women WriteNovels Women's Self-Expression in Fashion Fiction Records Women's PleasureSeeking Ambivalence toward Women's Pursuit of Consumer Pleasures Taste 5: ACulture of Reform Antiworldview Women and Humanitarian Reform StalkingHorses: The Campaign on Behalf of Victims of Male Barbarity Sensibility'sGoal: The Man of Feeling Sensibility's Method: Conversion The Cult ofSensibility Methodism and the Culture of Sensibility The Rights of Woman andthe Reformation of Manners 6: Women and Individualism: Inner and OuterStruggles over Sensibility The Sentimentalizing Process Egotism andOpposition The Reality of Heroism and Romance Subversive Potentials inWomen's Developing Minds: Marriage and Class Still More SubversivePotentials: Sensibility and Sex 7: Wollstonecraft and the Crisis overSensibility in the 1790s Amazons at the Boundary Wollstonecraft, Hays, andthe Conflict over Sensibility Wollstonecraft Becomes Amazon "Man Was Made toReason, Woman to Feel": Compromise Notes Index