{"product_id":"victorian-pain-paperback","title":"Victorian Pain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Ablow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Pain\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRachel Ablow provides close readings of novelists Charlotte Brontë 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA landmark study of Victorian literature and the history of pain, \u003ci\u003eVictorian Pain\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Ablow\u003c\/b\u003e is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 09, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42710698557503,"sku":"9780691202884","price":71.82,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/91ec5ce5177cfad8d08ff876ffba7171.webp?v=1765055867","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/victorian-pain-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}