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- Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxii
- 2. Imagining Pain
- pp. 30-58
- Intermezzo
- pp. 92-93
- 4. The Epistemology of the Tortured Body
- pp. 94-119
- Conclusion
- pp. 146-150
- Works Cited
- pp. 165-173
Additional Information
ISBN
9780812206739
Related ISBN(s)
9780812232912
MARC Record
OCLC
794702286
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1995