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Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm Dec 2003

Gothic Masculinity: Effeminacy And The Supernatural In English And German Romanticism. (Book Review), Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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The Contemporary Gothic: Why We Need It, Steven Bruhm Dec 2001

The Contemporary Gothic: Why We Need It, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

My title suggests a rather straightforward enterprise: I want to account for the enormous popularity of the Gothic - both novels and films - since the Second World War. However, the title proposes more questions than it answers. First, what exactly counts as “the contemporary Gothic”? Since its inception in 1764, with Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, the Gothic has always played with chronology, looking back to moments in an imaginary history, pining for a social stability that never existed, mourning a chivalry that belonged more to the fairy tale than to reality. And contemporary Gothic does not break …

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David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm Jan 2000

David Punter, Gothic Pathologies: The Text, The Body And The Law, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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Cannon Schmitt. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality, Steven Bruhm Dec 1998

Cannon Schmitt. Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions And English Nationality, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics Of Cultural Dismemberment. David Collings, Steven Bruhm Oct 1995

Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics Of Cultural Dismemberment. David Collings, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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Gothic Bodies: The Politics Of Pain In Romantic Fiction, Steven Bruhm Dec 1993

Gothic Bodies: The Politics Of Pain In Romantic Fiction, Steven Bruhm

Steven Bruhm

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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