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.
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.
Thomas Constantinesco is Professor of American Literature at Sorbonne Université, France. He also taught at Yale, Oxford, and Université de Paris. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a Junior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France and, in 2019-2021, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Oxford. He is the author of Ralph Waldo Emerson: L'Amérique à l'essai (Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2012). He has published essays on nineteenth-century American literature in such venues as The New England Quarterly, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, American Periodicals, and Textual Practice. With Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, he co-edited Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature (Routledge, 2015).
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Introduction 1: Emerson's Economy of Pain 2: Willing Pain in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 3: Emily Dickinson and the "High Perogative" of Pain 4: Henry James, Invisible Wounds, and the Civil War 5: The Pedagogy of Pain in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar 6: Pain, Will, and Writing in the Diary of Alice James
Introduction 1: Emerson's Economy of Pain 2: Willing Pain in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl 3: Emily Dickinson and the "High Perogative" of Pain 4: Henry James, Invisible Wounds, and the Civil War 5: The Pedagogy of Pain in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar 6: Pain, Will, and Writing in the Diary of Alice James
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