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.
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