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Thomas Constantinesco, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Mark Niemeyersubject
[SHS.LITT] Humanities and Social Sciences/LiteratureGeneral EngineeringCivil WarPain StudiesAmerican Literaturepainnineteenth-century American literaturedouleurLiterature - 19th centurylittérature américaine du dix-neuvième siècleguerre de Sécessiondescription
Pain is part of life. It is part of literature as well. And in Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Thomas Constantinesco offers an intelligent, clearly organized, and insightful exploration of various ways in which pain is expressed—or not—through the written word in a selection of American literary works from the 1800s. Constantinesco takes his initial inspiration, in part, from Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain, a controversial work published in 1985, which has become recog...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-04-06 |