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

    The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem... more

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    The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191890857
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    RVK Categories: HU 1710
    Edition: First edition.
    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: American literature; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; Suffering in literature; Aesthetics, Modern; Aesthetics, Modern; American literature; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages), illustrations (colour).
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    This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2021)
  2. Ghost words and invisible giants
    H.D., Djuna Barnes, and the language of suffering
    Author: Dustin, Lheisa
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Vancouver ; Madison ; Teaneck ; Wroxton

    "Lheisa Dustin describes the 'language of suffering' of iconic modernist authors H.D. and Djuna Barnes, tracing psychic splitting and virulent thought patterns in their creative works. She argues that this language, where word and meaning are... more

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    "Lheisa Dustin describes the 'language of suffering' of iconic modernist authors H.D. and Djuna Barnes, tracing psychic splitting and virulent thought patterns in their creative works. She argues that this language, where word and meaning are disconnected, signals breaks in consciousness haunted by spectral objects of fear and desire"--

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

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

    The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem... more

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    The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191890857
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    Edition: First edition.
    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: American literature; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; Suffering in literature; Aesthetics, Modern
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages), Illustrations (colour).
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    This edition also issued in print: 2021

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  5. Ghost words and invisible giants
    H.D., Djuna Barnes, and the language of suffering
    Author: Dustin, Lheisa
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Vancouver

    "Lheisa Dustin describes "language of suffering" of iconic modernist authors H.D. and Djuna Barnes, tracing psychic splitting and virulent thought patterns in their creative works. She argues that this language, where word and meaning are... more

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    "Lheisa Dustin describes "language of suffering" of iconic modernist authors H.D. and Djuna Barnes, tracing psychic splitting and virulent thought patterns in their creative works. She argues that this language, where word and meaning are disconnected, signals breaks in consciousness haunted by spectral objects of fear and desire"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781683932307
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    RVK Categories: HU 3095 ; HU 3489
    Subjects: Suffering in literature; Psychoanalysis and literature; Modernism (Literature); Leid <Motiv>
    Other subjects: H. D (1886-1961); H. D (1886-1961); Barnes, Djuna; Barnes, Djuna; Barnes, Djuna (1892-1982)
    Scope: ix, 297 Seiten, 24 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-288) and index
  6. The Creature
    In Power and Pain
    Author: Chakravarty, Prasanta
    Published: 2021; ©2021
    Publisher:  Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd., London

    Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Omen of Nothing -- Book I -- I. The Imitative Creature -- II. The Hounded Creature -- III. The Creature Forlorn -- IV. The Elsewhere Creature -- V. The Creature in Action... more

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    Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Omen of Nothing -- Book I -- I. The Imitative Creature -- II. The Hounded Creature -- III. The Creature Forlorn -- IV. The Elsewhere Creature -- V. The Creature in Action -- Book II -- VI. The Observant Creature -- VII. The Generous Creature -- VIII. The Creature as the Spirit-Wrestler -- Book III -- IX. The Plastic Creature -- X. The Creature as the Blasted Mortar -- XI. The Creature Aflutter -- XII. The Enchanted Creature -- XIII. The Upright Creature -- Book IV -- XIV. Decreature -- Index -- About the Author.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9789354351327
    Subjects: Suffering in literature; Mimicry (Biology); Agonistic behavior in animals; Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (266 pages)
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  7. Pain and the aesthetics of US literary realism
    Author: Davis, Cynthia J.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem... more

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    The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilised ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects.

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780191890857
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    RVK Categories: HU 1710
    Edition: First edition.
    Series: Oxford scholarship online
    Subjects: American literature; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; Suffering in literature; Aesthetics, Modern; Aesthetics, Modern; American literature; Pain in literature; Realism in literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc
    Scope: 1 online resource (256 pages), illustrations (colour).
    Notes:

    This edition also issued in print: 2021. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on October 4, 2021)