The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture
Lucy Bending
Price: £67.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-818717-2
Publication date: 31 August 2000
320 pages, 4 halftones, 216x138 mm
Series: Oxford English Monographs
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| - 'Bending is illuminating on the crisis of faith caused by the doctrine of eternal pain in hell.' - English Historical Review
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| Description | | 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, in order to suggest patterns of presentation and evasion to be perceived throughout the different texts assembled. 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 Woolfs 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. |
Readership: Academics and post graduate students of C19th literature and history.
| Contents |
Introduction
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Christian Understandings of Physical Suffering
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The Rise of Medical Paradigm
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Pain and Language
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Antivisectionary Rhetoric and Pain
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The Question of Shared Human Sensibility
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The Pleasures and Pains of Flogging
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Lucy Bending, Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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