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Victorian Pain

Hardcover • 2017 • 1. edition

Victorian Pain

By Rachel Ablow

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About the book

The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence with a well-ordered universe? Examining how wr

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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9780691174464

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2017

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1

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Victorian Pain

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Hardcover

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