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Literary Criticism English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Gothic Bodies

The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

by (author) Steven Bruhm

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Initial publish date
Dec 1994
Category
English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  • 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.