Gothic Bodies
The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

Steven Bruhm

208 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 1994 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3291-2 | $49.95s | £32.50 | Add to cart
Ebook 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0673-9 | $49.95s | £32.50 | About | Add to cart

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.

Steven Bruhm is Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English at The University of Western Ontario.

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