The Culture of Pain

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List of contents

Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction

I
LIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?
2
THE MEANINGS OF PAIN
3
AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC
4
THE PAIN OF COMEDY
5
HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER
6
VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICS
OF SUFFERING
7
PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD
8
THE USES OF PAIN
9
PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY AND
AFFLICTION
10
SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 224
11
TRAGIC PAIN
12
THE FUTURE OF PAIN

Notes
Index
CONTENTS

About the author

David B. Morris resigned in 1982 from the University of Iowa, where he was professor of English, to move to Michigan and devote himself to writing. An earlier book, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984), won the Gottshalk Price of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Summary

Are you writing about physical pain or mental pain? This is a book about the meanings we make out of pain.

Product details

• Authors: Morris, David B Morris, David B. Morris, Morris David B.
• Assisted by: David B. Morris (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.1993
• EAN: 9780520082762
• ISBN: 978-0-520-08276-2
• No. of pages: 354
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA