TY  - BOOK
AU  - Constantinesco,Thomas
TI  - Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States
T2  - Oxford studies in American literary history
SN  - 019285559X
U1  - 810.9356 
KW  - American literature
KW  - Pain in literature
KW  - American literature 19th century History and criticism
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index
N2  - 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
ER  -