id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5817 Sensibility - Wikipedia .html text/html 1421 166 59 Title page of the first edition of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke, 1689. One of the first of such texts would be John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), where he says, "I conceive that Ideas in the Understanding, are coeval with Sensation; which is such an Impression or Motion, made in some part of the body, as makes it be taken notice of in the Understanding."[2] George Cheyne and other medical writers wrote of "The English Malady," also called "hysteria" in women or "hypochondria" in men, a condition with symptoms that closely resemble the modern diagnosis of clinical depression. Jane Austen's 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility provides a more familiar example of this reaction against the excesses of feeling, especially those associated with women readers, and many critics have seen the novel as a critique of the "cult" of sentimentalism prevalent in the late eighteenth century.[4] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5817.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5817.txt