 | Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Horror tales English -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- Great Britai; 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. |
