Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: 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 recognized as one of the founding texts in the field of pain studies.According to Scarry, "Physical pain does
Source: Miranda
Author: Mark Niemeyer
Institutions: Université de Bourgogne, Centre Interlangues
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4362711244