The representation of bodily pain in late nineteenth-century English culture
By: Lucy Bending.
Series: Oxford English monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Pain in literature; Pain -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Body, Human, in literature
Description: This is a study of the ways in which concepts of pain were treated across a broad range of late-Victorian writing. The book places literary texts alongside sermons, medical books and campaigning leaflets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-298) and index.