![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tears and sighs were streaming from every chapter. The book that brought this genre into the fore was a work by Henry MacKenzie called The Man of Feeling. And there was a prevalence of female novelists, writing for a large female audience. The gothic revival was developing at the time, with its stress on the exotic and its accompanying disgust with the trivialities of everyday life. Rousseau wrote about the "noble savage," and Samuel Richardson's intense portrayals of the emotional life of women were also popular. The philosophy of Lord Shaftesbury was popular at the time, stressing man's natural beneficence. The influences which worked this change were many. Austen is concerned with the prevalence of the "sensitive" attitude in the romantic novel which, after the 1760s, turned to emphasizing the emotional and sentimental nature of people rather than, as before, their rational endowments. The main theme in this novel is the danger of excessive sensibility. Critical Reception of Sense and Sensibility.Plot and Theme in Sense and Sensibility. ![]()
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