Pain: metaphor, body, and culture in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries
Year: 2014
Type: article
Abstract: This article explores the relationship between metaphorical languages, body, and culture, and suggests that such an analysis can reveal a great deal about the meaning and experience of pain in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. It uses concepts within embodied cognition to speculate on how historians can write a history of sensation. Bodies are actively engaged in the linguistic processes and social interactions that constitute painful sensations. Language is engaged in a dialogue with physiological bodies and social environments. And culture collaborates in the creation of physiological bodies and metaphorical systems.
Source: Rethinking History
Author: Joanna Bourke
Institutions: University of London, Birkbeck, University of London
Language: English
Topic: History of Emotions Research
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Funder: Wellcome Trust
OpenAlex ID: W2015137447