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Victorian Pain / Rachel Ablow.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691174464
  • 9781400885176
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 820.9353 23
LOC classification:
  • PR468.P15 A26 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Pain, Subjectivity, and the Social -- Chapter One. John Stuart Mill and the Poetics of Social Pain -- Chapter Two. Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain -- Chapter Three. Pain and Privacy in Villette -- Chapter Four. Charles Darwin's Affect Theory -- Chapter Five. Wounded Trees, Abandoned Boots -- Afterword. The Fantasy of the Speaking Body -- Notes -- Words Cited -- Index -- A Note On the Type
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Pain, Subjectivity, and the Social -- Chapter One. John Stuart Mill and the Poetics of Social Pain -- Chapter Two. Harriet Martineau and the Impersonality of Pain -- Chapter Three. Pain and Privacy in Villette -- Chapter Four. Charles Darwin's Affect Theory -- Chapter Five. Wounded Trees, Abandoned Boots -- Afterword. The Fantasy of the Speaking Body -- Notes -- Words Cited -- Index -- A Note On the Type

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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)