Description: As scholarly interest has turned to emotion and affect, Reflections on Sentiment offers examples of Enlightenment feeling both challenging and promoting the period's touted reason and realism. Essays explore the complex relation of thought and sentiment in discourses from mora...
Brief description: Joanna M. Picciotto is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. She is the author of Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (2010).
Review Quotes: "The contributors to the volume have succeeded in balancing a broad range of theoretical approaches and topics, including Defoe as well as both canonical and non-canonical texts and authors. Another strength was the concerted effort to include at least one image in every essay--a touch Starr himself would appreciate, given his own scholarly work on art, architecture, and design.... Reflections on Sentiment is...a worthy tribute to Starr's legacy. The cohesiveness of the essays and their careful arrangement underscores the sense that this volume is both a celebration of Starr's career and a celebration of how such a legacy can proliferate into a vibrant community of scholarship and fellow thinking." --Eighteenth-Century Fiction