Ablow, Rachel

Victorian Pain

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ISBN 13:
9780691174464
author:
Ablow, Rachel
format:
HardBack
publisher:
Princeton University Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2017
Pages:
208
Dimensions:
24.13 x 16.26 x 2.03 centimetres
Genre:
Nonfiction, Philosophy, Political,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£44.33

Description

Victorian Pain by Rachel Ablow explores how writers and thinkers of the 19th century grappled with the concept of pain. As new scientific understandings made it conceivable to eradicate pain, this led to complex moral and philosophical dilemmas. Ablow examines close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë and Thomas Hardy, as well as philosophers John Stuart Mill, Harriet Martineau, and Charles Darwin, among others. She investigates how discussions of pain served as investigations into the status of persons and social life. In this landmark study, Ablow shows how these writers came to see pain as a social problem, rather than simply a personal issue. By exploring the ways in which Victorian writers engaged with pain, Ablow sheds new light on the history of pain and its relationship to literature and philosophy.

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