Pain and the aesthetics of US literary realism
Introduction: Pain and postbellum American sensibilities -- Part one. High realism -- "The taste of life": suffering, literary mode, and Howellsian realism -- "No pain and no consciousness": the James siblings, anesthesia, and suffering -- "The blind dread of physical pain&q...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford University Press
2021
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: Pain and postbellum American sensibilities -- Part one. High realism -- "The taste of life": suffering, literary mode, and Howellsian realism -- "No pain and no consciousness": the James siblings, anesthesia, and suffering -- "The blind dread of physical pain": Edith Wharton against the New Thought -- Part two. Curious realism -- Stubborn fractions: Mark Twain, Christian Science, and pain -- Charles Chesnutt's realist vision -- Epilogue: "True realism" and a "truer world. |
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| Beschreibung: | xii, 234 Seiten Illustrationen 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780198858737 978-0-19-885873-7 |