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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Hardcover)
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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
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Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States examines how
pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from
the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic,
philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James,
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture
of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of
anesthesia. Through examining the work of nineteenth-century
writers, Constantinesco argues that pain, while undeniably
destructive, also generates language and identities, and
demonstrates how literature participates in theorizing the problems
of mind and body that undergird the deep chasms of selfhood,
sociality, gender, and race of a formative period in American
history. Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
considers first Emerson's philosophy of compensation, which
promises to convert pain into gain. It also explores the
limitations of this model, showing how Jacobs contests the division
of body and mind that underwrites it and how Dickinson challenges
its alleged universalism by foregrounding the unshareability of
pain as a paradoxical measure of togetherness. It then investigates
the concurrent economies of affects in which pain was implicated
during and after the Civil War and argues, through the example of
James and Phelps, for queer sociality as a response to the
heteronormative violence of sentimentalism. The last chapter on
Alice James extends the critique of sentimental sympathy while
returning to the book's premise that pain is generative and the
site of thought. By linking literary formalism with individual and
social formation, Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United
States eventually claims close reading as a method to recover the
theoretical work of literature.
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