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