{"product_id":"writing-pain-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states-hardcover","title":"Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Constantinesco\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States\u003c\/em\u003e examines how pain is represented in a range of literary texts and genres from the nineteenth-century US. It considers the aesthetic, philosophical, and ethical implications of pain across the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Harriet Jacobs, Emily Dickinson, Henry James, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, and Alice James, as the national culture of pain progressively transformed in the wake of the invention of anesthesia. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough examining the work of nineteenth-century writers, Constantinesco argues that pain, while undeniably destructive, also generates language and identities, and demonstrates how literature participates in theorizing the problems of mind and body that undergird the deep chasms of selfhood, sociality, gender, and race of a formative period in American history. \u003cem\u003eWriting Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States\u003c\/em\u003e considers first Emerson's philosophy of compensation, which promises to convert pain into gain. It also explores the limitations of this model, showing how Jacobs contests the division of body and mind that underwrites it and how Dickinson challenges its alleged universalism by foregrounding the unshareability of pain as a paradoxical measure of togetherness. It then investigates the concurrent economies of affects in which pain was implicated during and after the Civil War and argues, through the example of James and Phelps, for queer sociality as a response to the\u003cbr\u003eheteronormative violence of sentimentalism. The last chapter on Alice James extends the critique of sentimental sympathy while returning to the book's premise that pain is generative and the site of thought. By linking literary formalism with individual and social formation, \u003cem\u003eWriting Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States\u003c\/em\u003e eventually claims close reading as a method to recover the theoretical work of literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThomas Constantinesco, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of American Literature, Sorbonne Université, France\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThomas Constantinesco\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eRalph Waldo Emerson: L'Amérique à l'essai\u003c\/em\u003e (Éditions Rue d'Ulm, 2012). He has published essays on nineteenth-century American literature in such venues as \u003cem\u003eThe New England Quarterly, ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance, American Periodicals\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eTextual Practice\u003c\/em\u003e. With Sophie Laniel-Musitelli, he co-edited \u003cem\u003eRomanticism and Philosophy: Thinking with Literature\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2015).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.49 x 6.51 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 25, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462385582258,"sku":"9780192855596","price":179.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1c305a89f4c20dc3391aab68de1421ce.webp?v=1778968105","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/writing-pain-in-the-nineteenth-century-united-states-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}