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Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States
"Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emi...
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| Format : | Livre |
| Langue : | anglais |
| Titre complet : | Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States / Thomas Constantinesco |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
, 2022 |
| Description matérielle : | 1 vol. (IX-266 p.) |
| Collection : | Oxford studies in American literary history |
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| Documents associés : | Autre format:
Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States |
| Résumé : | "Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia." "Offers new readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James. Demonstrates how pain generates literary language and shapes individual and collective identities. Examines how nineteenth-century US literature mobilizes and challenges sentimentalism as a response to the problem of pain. Uses sustained close reading to illuminate the theoretical and historical work of literature." |
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| Notes : | Titre provenant des métadonnées fournies par l'éditeur |
| Bibliographie : | Bibliogr. p. [241]-258. Notes bibliogr. Index |
| ISBN : | 0-19-285559-X 978-0-19-285559-6 |