Gothic Bodies : : The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction / / Steven Bruhm.
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 transitio...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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