Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States / Thomas Constantinesco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Constantinesco, Thomas, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in American literary history.

Oxford studies in American literary history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature.

Pain in literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (277 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

This text examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century United States. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia.

Contents:

Ralph Waldo Emerson's economy of pain

Willing pain in Harriet Jacob's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Emily Dickinson and the "high prerogative" of pain

Henry James, invisible wounds, and the Civil War

The pedagogy of pain in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar

Pain, will, and writing in the Diary of Alice James.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-266812-9

0-19-266811-0

0-19-194609-5