The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Oxford English Monographs) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture (Oxford English Monographs) Book

A study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late-Victorian writing. The book places literary texts alongside sermons medical books and campaigning leaflets in order to suggest patterns of presentation and evasion to be perceived throughout the texts.Read More

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    This book presents a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late Victorian writing, placing literary texts alongside sermons, medical textbooks and the campaigning leaflets. Pain is not a shared, cross-cultural phenomenon and this book uses the examples of fire-walking, flogging, and tattooing to show that, despite the fact that pain is often invoked as a marker of shared human identity, understandings of pain are sharply affected by class, gender, race, and supposed degree of criminality. In arguing this case, Virginia Woolf's claim that there is no language for pain is taken seriously, but the importance of this book lies in its exploration of the ways in which the seemingly incommunicable experience of bodily suffering can be conveyed.

  • 0198187173
  • 9780198187172
  • Lucy Bending
  • 31 August 2000
  • Clarendon Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 320
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