Thomas Constantinesco

Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855596
• ISBN-10: 019285559X
• Artikelnr.: 64045414

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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