'The heart's best blood': Sterne and the promiscuous life of sensibility -- From trembling to tranquility: women writers and Wordsworth's pleasure principle -- Epistemologies of the romantic closet: Shakespeare, sexuality, and the myth of genius -- The social work of persuasion: Austen and the new sensorium -- Prometheus versus the man of feeling: Frankenstein, sensibility, and the uncertain future of romanticism (an allegory for literary history) -- Coda: Sentimental journeys: the afterlife of feeling in Landon and Tennyson.