Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction Contributor(s): Bruhm, Steven (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812232917 ISBN-13: 9780812232912 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 1994 Annotation: 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. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Gothic & Romance - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Dewey: 823.087 |
LCCN: 94033221 |
Lexile Measure: 1390 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.2" W x 9.34" (1.08 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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Publisher Description: 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. |