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"The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its...

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Main Author: Ablow, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Pain in literature.
Pain.
Literature and society.
Literature and science.
Human body in literature.
English literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > General.
PHILOSOPHY > Social.
PHILOSOPHY > Political.
PHILOSOPHY > History & Surveys > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Litterature et societe > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature et sciences > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Corps humain dans la litterature.
Douleur > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Douleur dans la litterature.
Litterature anglaise > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Literature and science > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Pain > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Pain, Subjectivity, and the Social; CHAPTER 1 John Stuart Mill and the Poetics of Social Pain.
  • CHAPTER 2 Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain CHAPTER 3 Pain and Privacy in Villette ; CHAPTER 4 Charles Darwin's Affect Theory.
  • CHAPTER 5 Wounded Trees, Abandoned Boots AFTERWORD The Fantasy of the Speaking Body; Notes; Works Cited; Index.

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