Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Gothic Bodies
The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Dec 1994
- Category
- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780812232912
- Publish Date
- Dec 1994
- List Price
- $59.95 USD
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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.
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Contributor Notes
Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario.