Gothic Bodies
The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction

Steven Bruhm (Author)

9780812232912

Hardback, published 29 December 1994

208 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2 cm, 0.486 kg

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.