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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Auteur principal : Constantinesco Thomas (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States / Thomas Constantinesco
Publié : Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2022
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-266 p.)
Collection : Oxford studies in American literary history
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  • Introduction
  • 1:Emerson's Economy of Pain
  • 2:Willing Pain in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
  • 3:Emily Dickinson and the "High Perogative" of Pain
  • 4:Henry James, Invisible Wounds, and the Civil War
  • 5:The Pedagogy of Pain in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar
  • 6:Pain, Will, and Writing in the Diary of Alice James