Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth Century English - Cultur

Zusatztext Rich in detail and broad in range ... full of interesting local detail. Informationen zum Autor Lucy Bending is Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Aberyswyth Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Lucy Bending, Lucy (Lecturer in English Bending, Bending Lucy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.09.2000
• EAN: 9780198187172
• ISBN: 978-0-19-818717-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford English Monographs; Oxford English Monographs
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; England, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Cultural Studies, European History, English, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900