Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

by Steven Bruhm

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812232912
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	12/29/1994
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.73(d)
Lexile:	1390L (what's this?)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario.

Editorial Reviews

An intriguing scholarly investigation, not so much of the ways the late 18th and early 19th centuries articulated pain, but of the ways in which pain itself articulated the late 18th-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. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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