Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / Steven Bruhm.

An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transitio...

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Main Author: Bruhm, Steven
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1994.
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Summary:An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late eighteenth-century experience. Through analysis of novels, plays, and poems, the author explores the transition from sensibility as a sense of "selflessness" to Romanticism, which puts the self in the foreground as the mediating consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject
Item Description:OldControl:muse9780812206739.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 181 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.
ISBN:9780812206739
0812206738
1283899256
9781283899253
0585147124
9780585147123
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.