Philippa Lewis is a literary and cultural historian of nineteenth-century France. She holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK and was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Intimacy and Distance: Conflicting Cultures in Nineteenth-Century France (2018).

• 1. Strange Sensibility.- 2. A False Virtue? Shyness as a Moral Problem.- 3. A Novel Subject.- 4. Shyness on Stage.- 5. Ill-at-Ease: Medicalising Shyness at the Fin-de-Siècle.- 6. Coda: Experimenting with Shyness.

Philippa Lewis is a literary and cultural historian of nineteenth-century France. She holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK and was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Intimacy and Distance: Conflicting Cultures in Nineteenth-Century France (2018).

• 1. Strange Sensibility.- 2. A False Virtue? Shyness as a Moral Problem.- 3. A Novel Subject.- 4. Shyness on Stage.- 5. Ill-at-Ease: Medicalising Shyness at the Fin-de-Siècle.- 6. Coda: Experimenting with Shyness.

Philippa Lewis is a literary and cultural historian of nineteenth-century France. She holds a PhD in French Studies from the University of Cambridge, UK and was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Intimacy and Distance: Conflicting Cultures in Nineteenth-Century France (2018).

• 1. Strange Sensibility.- 2. A False Virtue? Shyness as a Moral Problem.- 3. A Novel Subject.- 4. Shyness on Stage.- 5. Ill-at-Ease: Medicalising Shyness at the Fin-de-Siècle.- 6. Coda: Experimenting with Shyness.