Chargement en cours…

Victorian Pain /

"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...

Description complète

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Ablow, Rachel (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.