Bodies at risk
Subtitle: unsafe limits in romanticism and postmodernism
By: Robert Burns Neveldine.
Series: SUNY series in postmodern culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Body, Human, in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Romanticism; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism
Description: Taking a fundamentally post-psychoanalytical approach, Bodies at Risk links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods, with postmodernism continuing and amplifying the central concerns of Romanticism, including subject formation, the disruptive effects of the human body, and the unique forms of textuality they enable through risky personal and artistic conflicts.

Neveldine investigates how the body, designated as queer or otherwise, has placed itself at risk, such that it has questioned dominant notions of what it is to be a human subject in Western society, roughly since the time of the Romantics. Neveldine also explores how certain kinds of artistic conflicts have played themselves out in various texts in the Romantic period and postmodernism and what these conflicts have produced, both corporeally and textually.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-200) and index.