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Selected Works of Steven Bruhm
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Aesthetics and Anesthetics at the Revolution.pdf
Studies in Romanticism (1993)
  • Steven Bruhm
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Abstract
This article considers the making and unmaking of the world through pain, as Elaine Scarry would say, in two Romantic works: Lord Byron's Don Juan and Matthew Lewis's The Monk.
Keywords
  • pain,
  • Don Juan,
  • The Monk,
  • anesthesia,
  • French Revolution
Disciplines
Publication Date
Fall 1993
Citation Information
Steven Bruhm. "Aesthetics and Anesthetics at the Revolution.pdf" Studies in Romanticism Vol. 32 Iss. 3 (1993) p. 399 - 424
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/stevenbruhm/45/