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Victorian pain [electronic resource]
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| 자료유형 | 단행본 |
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| 서명/저자사항 | Victorian pain/ Rachel Ablow. [electronic resource]. |
| 개인저자 | Ablow, Rachel,author. |
| 발행사항 | Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017. |
| 형태사항 | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN | 9781400885176 1400885175 |
| 서지주기 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 내용주기 | 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 |
| 요약 | "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 existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, Victorian Pain offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. Rachel Ablow provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. She explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, Victorian Pain shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons--and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read."-- |
| 해제 | Provided by publisher. |
| 주제명(지명) | Great Britain. --fast |
| 일반주제명 | English literature --19th century --History and criticism. Pain in literature. Pain --Great Britain --History --19th century. Human body in literature. Literature and science --Great Britain --History --19th century. Literature and society --Great Britain --History --19th century. LITERARY CRITICISM --General. PHILOSOPHY --History & Surveys --General. PHILOSOPHY --Political. PHILOSOPHY --Social. HISTORY --General. English literature. Human body in literature. Literature and science. Literature and society. Pain. Pain in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh HISTORY / General |
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