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Routledge
242 Pages
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Routledge
242 Pages
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Routledge
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When writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries explored the implications of organic and emotional sensitivity, the pain of the body gave rise to unsettling but irresistible questions. Urged on by some of their most deeply felt preoccupations – and in the case of figures like Coleridge and P. B. Shelley, by their own experiences of chronic pain – many writers found themselves... Read more
Preface 1. Romanticism and the Sense of Pain 2. Bentham's Absolute 3. Sade's Unreason 4. Living Thorns: Coleridge and Hartley 5. Shelley: A Sense of Senselessness 6. Conclusion
Biography
Jeremy Davies is a lecturer at the University of Leeds, UK.
"A searching, keenly intelligent study of the significance of pain in the history of sensation … represents the cutting edge of interdisciplinary work on literature, philosophy, and medicine." - Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
