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

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 anesthes...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Constantinesco, Thomas (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
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