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Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States /
Constantinesco, Thomas,
Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States / Thomas Constantinesco. - First edition. - ix, 266 pages ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in American literary history .
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
019285559X 9780192855596
American literature
Pain in literature.
American literature 19th century History and criticism
810.9356 / CON
Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States / Thomas Constantinesco. - First edition. - ix, 266 pages ; 24 cm. - Oxford studies in American literary history .
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
019285559X 9780192855596
American literature
Pain in literature.
American literature 19th century History and criticism
810.9356 / CON