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03770aam a2200589 i 4500 001 4468655A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170602010157 008 170302s2017 nju b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016050649 020 $a 0691174466 020 $a 9780691174464 035 $a (OCoLC)962351909 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BDX $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PR468.P15 $b A26 2017 082 00 $a 820.9/353 $2 23 084 $a HIS000000 $a PHI009000 $a PHI019000 $a PHI034000 $a HIS000000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Ablow, Rachel, $e author. 245 10 $a Victorian pain / $c Rachel Ablow. 264 1 $a Princeton : $b Princeton University Press, $c [2017] 300 $a x, 191 pages ; $c 25 cm 520 $a "The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how writers of the day engaged with such questions, Victorian Pain offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. Rachel Ablow provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Bronte and Thomas Hardy and political and natural philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, as well as a variety of medical, scientific, and popular writers of the Victorian age. She explores how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and the nature and parameters of social life. No longer conceivable as divine trial or punishment, pain in the nineteenth century came to seem instead like a historical accident suggesting little or nothing about the individual who suffers. A landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, Victorian Pain shows how these writers came to see pain as a social as well as a personal problem. Rather than simply self-evident to the sufferer and unknowable to anyone else, pain was also understood to be produced between persons--and even, perhaps, by the fictions they read."-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 650 0 $a English literature $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Pain in literature. 650 0 $a Pain $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Human body in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and science $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Great Britain $x History $y 19th century. 650 7 $a LITERARY CRITICISM $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY $x General. $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY $x Political. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY $x Social. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $x General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Human body in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01899762 650 7 $a Literature and science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000093 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Pain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01050382 650 7 $a Pain in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01050425 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 648 7 $a 1800-1899 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718092900.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20171226014646.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170802025504.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4468655A475911E7B35354A3DAD10320 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search