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041 _aeng
082 0 4 _a810.9356
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100 1 _aConstantinesco, Thomas,
245 1 0 _aWriting pain in the nineteenth-century United States /
_cThomas Constantinesco.
250 _aFirst edition.
300 _aix, 266 pages ;
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aOxford studies in American literary history
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
520 _aThis 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
650 0 _aAmerican literature
650 0 _aPain in literature.
650 0 _aAmerican literature 19th century History and criticism
942 _cENGLISH
999 _c567430
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