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Gothic bodies : the politics of pain in romantic fiction /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1994.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | OldControl:muse9780812206739. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxii, 181 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812206739 0812206738 1283899256 9781283899253 0585147124 9780585147123 |