Demonstrates the importance of physical pain to late-nineteenth century aesthetic sensibilities and, in particular, to American literary realism with a focus on the work of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt.
Demonstrates the importance of physical pain to late-nineteenth century aesthetic sensibilities and, in particular, to American literary realism with a focus on the work of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Cynthia J. Davis is a Professor of English and an Associate Dean at the University of South Carolina. She specializes in US literature from the Civil War to World War II, with emphases in medical humanities, literary history, and gender studies. Her essays have appeared in such journals as American Literature, American Literary History, and Arizona Quarterly. Her other books include a study of the influence of medicine on American Literature from 1845 to 1915 (Stanford, 2000) and a biography of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Stanford, 2010).
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* Introduction: Pain and Postbellum American Sensibilities * PART ONE. High Realism * 1: "The Taste of Life": Suffering, Literary Mode, and Howellsian Realism * 2: "No Pain and No Consciousness": The James Siblings, Anesthesia, and Suffering * 3: "The blind dread of physical pain": Edith Wharton against the New Thought * PART TWO. Curious Realism * 4: Stubborn Fractions: Mark Twain, Christian Science, and Pain * 5: Charles Chesnutt's Realist Vision * Epilogue: "True Realism" and a "Truer World"
* Introduction: Pain and Postbellum American Sensibilities * PART ONE. High Realism * 1: "The Taste of Life": Suffering, Literary Mode, and Howellsian Realism * 2: "No Pain and No Consciousness": The James Siblings, Anesthesia, and Suffering * 3: "The blind dread of physical pain": Edith Wharton against the New Thought * PART TWO. Curious Realism * 4: Stubborn Fractions: Mark Twain, Christian Science, and Pain * 5: Charles Chesnutt's Realist Vision * Epilogue: "True Realism" and a "Truer World"
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