Writing pain in the nineteenth-century united states
Auteur :
Constantinesco, Thomas
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780192855596
Date de publication :
25 févr. 2022
Dimensions :
24,0 x 16,4 x 2,2 cm
Poids :
558 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.