Gothic Bodies

The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

von Steven Bruhm

208 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1800 bis 1900
• ISBN: 9780812232912
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 29.12.1994
• Größe: 237 x 157 mm
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press