The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-century English CultureClarendon Press, 2000 - 309 Seiten This book presents a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late Victorian writing, placing literary texts alongside sermons, medical textbooks and the campaigning leaflets. Pain is not a shared, cross-cultural phenomenon and this book uses the examples of fire-walking, flogging, and tattooing to show that, despite the fact that pain is often invoked as a marker of shared human identity, understandings of pain are sharply affected by class, gender, race, and supposed degree of criminality. In arguing this case, Virginia Woolf's claim that there is no language for pain is taken seriously, but the importance of this book lies in its exploration of the ways in which the seemingly incommunicable experience of bodily suffering can be conveyed. |
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CHRISTIAN UNDERSTANDINGS | 5 |
MEDICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF PAIN | 52 |
PAIN AND LANGUAGE | 82 |
Urheberrecht | |
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