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Harrison, Dana M.

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Realism in pain: Literary and social constructions of Victorian pain in the age of anaesthesia, 1846--1870.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Realism in pain: Literary and social constructions of Victorian pain in the age of anaesthesia, 1846--1870./
作者:	Harrison, Dana M.
面頁冊數:	202 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International74-10A(E).
標題:	Literature, English. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3564812
ISBN:	9781303140532

Realism in pain: Literary and social constructions of Victorian pain in the age of anaesthesia, 1846--1870.
Harrison, Dana M.

Realism in pain: Literary and social constructions of Victorian pain in the age of anaesthesia, 1846--1870. - 202 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 74-10(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Temple University, 2013.

In 1846 and 1847, ether and chloroform were used and celebrated for the first time in Britain and the United States as effective surgical anaesthetics capable of rendering individuals insensible to physical pain. During the same decade, British novels of realism were enjoying increasing cultural authority, dominating readers' attention, and evoking readers' sympathy for numerous social justice issues. This dissertation investigates a previously unanswered question in studies of literature and medicine: how did writers of social realism incorporate realistic descriptions of physical pain, a notoriously difficult sensation to describe, in an era when the very idea of pain's inevitability was challenged by medical developments and when, concurrently, novelists, journalists, and politicians were concerned with humanitarian reforms to recognize traditionally ignored and disadvantaged individuals and groups in pain? By contextualizing the emergence of specific realist novels including works by Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Reade, William Howard Russell, and Charles Dickens, within larger nonfiction discourses regarding factory reform, prison reform, and war, this dissertation identifies and clarifies how realist authors, who aim to demonstrate general truths about "real life," employed various descriptions of physical pain during this watershed moment in medicine and pain theory, to convince readers of their validity as well as to awaken sympathetic politics among readers.

ISBN: 9781303140532Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

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