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UNINA9910777483903321 |
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Autore |
Bruhm Steven |
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Titolo |
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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ISBN |
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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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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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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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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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