Pain and the aesthetics of US literary realism /
The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2021.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: |
Main Collection - Walker Library - 2nd Floor
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PS374.R37 D38 2021
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| Copy 1 | Available Pull and Hold |
