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Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature
Author | : Jeremy Davies |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135016739 |
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Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.
Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature
Author | : Jeremy Davies |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-03-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781135016746 |
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Shortlisted for the University English Early Career Book Prize 2016 Shortlisted for the British Association for Romantic Studies First Book Prize 2015 When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves drawn to the imaginative scrutiny of bodies in extremis. Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature reveals the significance of physical hurt for the poetry, philosophy, and medicine of the Romantic period. This study looks back to eighteenth-century medical controversies that made pain central to discussions about the nature of life, and forward to the birth of surgical anaesthesia in 1846. It examines why Jeremy Bentham wrote in defence of torture, and how pain sparked the imagination of thinkers from Adam Smith to the Marquis de Sade. Jeremy Davies brings to bear on Romantic studies the fascinating recent work in the medical humanities that offers a fresh understanding of bodily hurt, and shows how pain could prompt new ways of thinking about politics, ethics, and identity.
Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature
Author | : Essaka Joshua |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108836708 |
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This book provides new period-appropriate concepts for understanding Romantic-era physical disability through function and aesthetics.
Pain
Author | : Rob Boddice |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Pain |
ISBN | : 9780198738565 |
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Rob Boddice considers how perceptions of pain have varied across history, and how the treatment of pain has also changed. Beginning with the classical world, he charts the increasing distinction drawn between physical and emotional pain, and the growing modern focus on empathy and compassion towards pain in others, and in animals.
The Body in Pain The Making and Unmaking of the World
Author | : Elaine Scarry |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1985-09-26 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780195036015 |
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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.
History of the Gothic Gothic Literature 1764 1824
Author | : Carol Margaret Davison |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781783163878 |
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This title offers a detailed yet accessible introduction to classic British Gothic literature and the popular sub-category of the Female Gothic designed for the student reader. Works by such classic Gothic authors as Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley are examined against the backdrop of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British social and political history and significant intellectual/cultural developments. Identification and interpretation of the Gothic’s variously reconfigured major motifs and conventions is provided alongside suggestions for further critical reading, a timeline of notable Gothic-related publications, and consideration of various theoretical approaches.
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability
Author | : Clare Barker,Stuart Murray |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107087828 |
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Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.
Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination
Author | : Laura R. Kremmel |
Publsiher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2022-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786838490 |
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This book debates a crossover between the Gothic and the medical imagination in the Romantic period. It explores the gore and uncertainty typical of medical experimentation, and expands the possibilities of medical theories in a speculative space by a focus on Gothic novels, short stories, poetry, drama and chapbooks. By comparing the Gothic’s collection of unsavoury tropes to morbid anatomy’s collection of diseased organs, the author argues that the Gothic’s prioritisation of fear and gore gives it access to nonnormative bodies, reallocating medical and narrative agency to bodies considered otherwise powerless. Each chapter pairs a trope with a critical medical debate, granting silenced bodies power over their own narratives: the reanimated corpse confronts fears about vitalism; the skeleton exposes fears about pain; the unreliable corpse feeds on fears of dissection; the devil redirects fears about disability; the dangerous narrative manipulates fears of contagion and vaccination.