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Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Her Contemporaries : Literary and Intellectual Contexts
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis, Denise D. Knight
Considers Gilman's place in American literary and social history by examining her relationships to other prominent intellectuals of her era By placing Charlotte Perkins Gilman in the company of her contemporaries, this collection seeks to correct mis
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Women Writers in the United States : A Timeline of Literary, Cultural, and Social History
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis, Kathryn West
Women Writers in the United States is a celebration of the many forms of work--written and social, tangible and intangible--produced by American women. Davis and West document the variety and volume of women's work in the U.S. in a clear and accessib
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'The Blind Dread of Physical Pain'
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis
Publikováno v: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
This chapter puts Edith Wharton’s insistence on pain’s refining power and her disdain for her pain-averse contemporaries in dialogue with the eclectic New Thought movement, which persuaded many Americans that a positive mental outlook could minim
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'No Pain and No Consciousness'
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis
Publikováno v: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
This chapter examines pain’s importance to the sensitized, embodied consciousness valued by William, Henry, and Alice James. All three siblings disdained what Henry once called “the odd numbness of the general sensibility.” Yet William insisted
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To 'Suffer Severely from Injustice'
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis
Publikováno v: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
With other turn-of-the-century Black intellectuals, Charles Chesnutt remained skeptical about the putative value of both human suffering and emotionally restrained and distanced responses to it. As a self-identified realist writing about race relatio
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Introduction
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis
Publikováno v: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
A strange moral transformation has within the past century swept over our Western world. We no longer think that we are called on to face physical pain with equanimity. It is not expected of a man that he should either endure it or inflict much of it
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'The Taste of Life'
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis
Publikováno v: Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
This chapter begins with a comparative analysis of pain’s importance to three prominent nineteenth-century literary modes: sentimentalism, naturalism, and realism. It then turns to the distinctive aesthetic and ethical priorities of the high realis
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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
Autor: Cynthia J. Davis
This book examines the cultural pursuit of a painless ideal as a neglected context for US literary realism. Advances in anesthesia in the final decades of the nineteenth century together with influential religious ideologies helped strengthen the equ
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