Writing pain in the nineteenth-century United States /
This text 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 anesthes...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This text 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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| Item Description: | This edition also issued in print: 2022. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 266 pages). |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192668127 0192668129 9780191946097 0191946095 |