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Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

By Jeremy Davies

Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature Medicine

Bodily Pain in Romantic Literature

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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. 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..
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
244
Release Date:
2014-03-31
Publication Date:
2014-03-05
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0415842913
ISBN13:
9780415842914
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
510 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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