Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Auteur: Constantinesco, Thomas (Professor of American Literature, Professor of American Literature, Sorbonne Universite, France)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
This book 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.
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ISBN / EAN 9780192855596
Auteur Constantinesco, Thomas (Professor of American Literature, Professor of American Literature, Sorbonne Universite, France)
Editeur Oxford University Press