03512nam 2200805 a 450 991077748390332120230421044812.01-283-89925-60-8122-0673-80-585-14712-410.9783/9780812206739(CKB)1000000000442062(OCoLC)794702286(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642148(SSID)ssj0000164649(PQKBManifestationID)11153472(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000164649(PQKBWorkID)10124346(PQKB)11173167(MiAaPQ)EBC3441813(MdBmJHUP)muse17905(DE-B1597)449295(OCoLC)979576883(DE-B1597)9780812206739(Au-PeEL)EBL3441813(CaPaEBR)ebr10642148(CaONFJC)MIL421175(OCoLC)932312688(EXLCZ)99100000000044206219940802d1994 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGothic bodies[electronic resource] the politics of pain in romantic fiction /Steven BruhmPhiladelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc19941 online resource (207 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8122-3291-7 Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.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 --IndexAn 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.English literature18th centuryHistory and criticismGothic revival (Literature)Great BritainEnglish literature19th centuryHistory and criticismHorror tales, EnglishHistory and criticismPolitics and literatureGreat BritainMind and body in literatureHuman body in literatureRomanticismGreat BritainPain in literatureEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.Gothic revival (Literature)English literatureHistory and criticism.Horror tales, EnglishHistory and criticism.Politics and literatureMind and body in literature.Human body in literature.RomanticismPain in literature.823/.087290936Bruhm Steven1530706MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777483903321Gothic bodies3834615UNINA