Overview
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.
- | Author: Thomas Constantinesco
- | Publisher: Oxford University Press
- | Publication Date: May 25, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 288 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover
- | ISBN-10: 019285559X
- | ISBN-13: 9780192855596
