The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture

Lucy (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Aberyswyth) Bending

Oxford University Press, 2000

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Pain is not the same for everybody. Victorian novels were awash with suffering, but this book also explores late Victorian discussions of fire-walking, tattooing and flogging, and in doing this shows the ways in which the experience was affected by class, gender, race, and criminality.

ISBN-13
9780198187172
ISBN-10
0198187173
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2000
Publication date
2000-08-31
Pages
320
Dimensions
221x162x23
Weight
518