| Description |
1 online resource (243 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: Pain and Postbellum American Sensibilities -- PART ONE: HIGH REALISM -- 1: "The Taste of Life": Suffering, Literary Mode, and Howellsian Realism -- 2: "No Pain and No Consciousness": The James Siblings, Anesthesia, and Suffering -- 3: "The Blind Dread of Physical Pain": Edith Wharton against the New Thought -- PART TWO: "CURIOUS REALISM" -- 4: Stubborn Fractions: Mark Twain, Christian Science, and Pain -- 5: To "Suffer Severely from Injustice": Charles Chesnutt's Realist Vision |
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Epilogue: "True Realism" and a "Truer World" -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Demonstrates the importance of physical pain to late-nineteenth century aesthetic sensibilities and, in particular, to American literary realism with a focus on the work of William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192602367 |
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0192602365 |
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