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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism (Hardcover)
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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism (Hardcover)
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The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a
civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific
advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects
like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The
upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from
the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their
supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US
literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary
revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who
celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. William Dean
Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles
Chesnutt embraced the concept of a heightened sensitivity to pain
as a consequence of the civilizing process but departed from their
peers by delineating alternative definitions of a superior
sensibility indebted to suffering. Although the treatment of pain
in other influential nineteenth century literary modes including
sentimentalism and naturalism has attracted ample scholarly
attention, this book offers the first sustained analysis of pain's
importance to US literary realism as practiced by five of its most
influential proponents.
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