![]() | Victorian Pain Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Pain in literature; Pain -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Human body in literature; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Literature and society -- Grea; The 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, Victorian Pain offers a compelling new literary and philosophical history of modern pain. Rachel Ablow is associate professor of English at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She is the author of The Marriage of Minds: Reading Sympathy in the Victorian Marriage Plot and the editor of The Feeling of Reading: Affective Experience and Victorian Literature . |
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