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UNINA9910777483903321 |
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Bruhm Steven |
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Gothic bodies [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / / Steven Bruhm |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994 |
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1-283-89925-6 |
0-8122-0673-8 |
0-585-14712-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (207 p.) |
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English literature - 18th century - History and criticism |
Gothic revival (Literature) - Great Britain |
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Horror tales, English - History and criticism |
Politics and literature - Great Britain |
Mind and body in literature |
Human body in literature |
Romanticism - Great Britain |
Pain in literature |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index. |
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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 |
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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 |
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consciousness. His tightly focused discussion sets a starting point for further critical investigation of the subject. |
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UNINA9910142038403321 |
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Language arts |
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Urbana, Ill. : , : National Council of Teachers of English, , 1975- |
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Champaign, Ill. : , : National Council of Teachers of English |
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English language |
English literature - Study and teaching |
English language - Study and teaching (Elementary) |
Anglais (Langue) |
Littérature anglaise - Étude et enseignement |
Anglais (Langue) - Étude et enseignement (Primaire) |
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Periodicals. |
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