Gothic Bodies
Author | : Steven Bruhm |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1994 |
ISBN-10 | : 0812232917 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780812232912 |
Rating | : 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Download or read book Gothic Bodies written by Steven Bruhm and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.