Thomas Constantinesco

Gebundenes Buch

Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Beschreibung

This book examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century United States. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia.

Autor

Thomas Constantinesco is Professor of American Literature at Sorbonne Université, France. He also taught at Yale, Oxford, and Université de Paris. Between 2014 and 2019, he was a Junior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France and, in 2019-2021, a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Oxford. He is the author of Ralph Waldo Emerson: L'Amérique à l'essai (Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2012). He has published essays on nineteenth-century American literature in such venues as The New England Quarterly, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, American Periodicals, and Textual Practice. With Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, he co-edited Romanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature (Routledge, 2015).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 165mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780192855596
• ISBN-10: 019285559X
• Artikelnr.: 64045414