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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruhm, Steven.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--18th century--History and criticism.

English literature.

Gothic revival (Literature)--Great Britain.

Gothic revival (Literature).

English literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English--History and criticism.

Horror tales, English.

Politics and literature--Great Britain.

Politics and literature.

Mind and body in literature.

Human body in literature.

Romanticism--Great Britain.

Romanticism.

Pain in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Pain, Politics, and Romantic Sensibility

2. Imagining Pain

3. Spectacular Pain: Politics and the Romantic Theatre

Intermezzo

4. The Epistemology of the Tortured Body

5. Aesthetics and Anesthetics at the Revolution

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-89925-6

0-8122-0673-8

0-585-14712-4

OCLC:

794702286