Gothic bodies [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of pain in romantic fiction / / Steven Bruhm

• Autore: Bruhm Steven
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (207 p.)
• Disciplina: 823/.087290936
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-173) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gothic bodies
• ISBN: 1-283-89925-6; 0-8122-0673-8; 0-585-14712-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777483903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II