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  1. Pain and the aesthetics of US literary realism
    Author: Davis, Cynthia J.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    Location:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780198858737
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Literatur; Realismus <Motiv>; Englisch; Schmerz <Motiv>
    Other subjects: American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; Suffering in literature; Aesthetics, Modern / 19th century; Littérature américaine / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; Douleur dans la littérature; Réalisme dans la littérature; Souffrance dans la littérature; Esthétique / 19e siècle; Aesthetics, Modern; American literature; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; 1800-1899; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: xii, 234 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
    Notes:

    Introduction: Pain and postbellum American sensibilities -- Part one. High realism -- "The taste of life": suffering, literary mode, and Howellsian realism -- "No pain and no consciousness": the James siblings, anesthesia, and suffering -- "The blind dread of physical pain": Edith Wharton against the New Thought -- Part two. Curious realism -- Stubborn fractions: Mark Twain, Christian Science, and pain -- Charles Chesnutt's realist vision -- Epilogue: "True realism" and a "truer world.