A SELECTED GENEALOGY OF SENSIBILITY

Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3d Earl of Shaftesbury, Inquiry Concerning Virtue, or Merit (1699)
Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711)

Francis Hutcheson, An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725)
An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections with Illustrations on the Moral Sense (1728)

David Hume, Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40) [simplified & reissued in 3 vols. as An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748), An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1751), A Dissertation on the Passions (1757)]

Richardson, Pamela (1740-1)

S. Fielding, David Simple (1744)

*Richardson, Clarissa (1747-8)

Haller-Whytt controversy (1751)

Lennox, Female Quixote (1752)

Richardson, Sir Charles Grandison (1753-4)

Burke, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

Hume, Of Tragedy (1757)

Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)

Sterne, Tristram Shandy (1759-67)

*Ossian (James Macpherson), Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760)

*Rousseau, La Nouvelle Heloise (1761) [Eng.trans. same year]

Sheridan, Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph (1761)

Frances Brooke, Lady Julia Mandeville (1763)

Goldsmith, Vicar of Wakefield (1766)

Henry Brooke, The Fool of Quality (1766-70)

*Sterne, Sentimental Journey (1768)

Griffith, The Delicate Distress (1769)

Mackenzie, Man of Feeling (1771)

Smollett, Humphrey Clinker (1771)

*Goethe, The Sorrows [or, Sufferings] of Young Werther (1774; 1787) [Fr. trans.1776; Eng. trans.1779]

The Florence Miscellany (1785)

Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786)

Wollstonecraft, Mary, A Fiction (1788)

*Bernardin St. Pierre, Paul et Virginie (1788)

Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne (1789)

E.Darwin, Loves of the Plants (1789)

The British Album (1790)

Wolfe Tone, R. Jebb, & J. Radcliffe, Belmont Castle: or, Suffering Sensibility (1790)

Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)

[Sade (c.1795)]

Cristall, Poetical Sketches (1795)

Robinson, Sappho and Phaon (1796)

Lewis, The Monk (1796)

Wollstonecraft, Maria (1798)

Blake, The Grey Monk (c.1800-1804)

Edgeworth, Belinda (1801)

Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802)

Dacre, The Kiss (& other poetry c.1805)

Tighe, Psyche & other Poems (p.p.1805; 1811)

OWENSON [LADY MORGAN], THE WILD IRISH GIRL (1806; 1846)

Edgeworth, Ennui (1809)

Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811)

Byron, The Giaour (1813)

Burney, The Wanderer (1814)

Austen, Persuasion (1818)

M. Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)

P.B. Shelley, On Love (1818; pub.1828)

P.B. Shelley, Defense of Poetry (1821; pub.1840)

L.E.L. (Laetitia Elizabeth Landon), poetry (1820s and 30s)

Hemans, poetry (1820s and 30s) [e.g. Casabianca (1826) & The Image in Lava (1828)]

Tennyson, poetry (30s and 40s) [esp. The Princess (1847)]

C.Bronte, Villette (1853)

* indicates touchstones of unquestionable international influence within the Sensibility tradition