![]() Although the treatment of pain in other influential nineteenth century literary modes including sentimentalism and naturalism has attracted ample scholarly attention, this book offers the first sustained analysis of pain's importance to US literary realism as practiced by five of its most influential proponents. William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt embraced the concept of a heightened sensitivity to pain as a consequence of the civilizing process but departed from their peers by delineating alternative definitions of a superior sensibility indebted to suffering. The means to that fairness is Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded in 1941 by Eli Siegel, American poet, critic, and educator-which is based on the. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. We reprint here his review in The Book League Monthly, August 1930, of a book on the history of American. There were those, for example, that appeared frequently between 1931 and ’35 in the noted Scribner’s Magazine. From the late 1920s through the mid ’30s, Eli Siegel wrote many book reviews. The upper classes could increasingly afford to distance themselves from the suffering they claimed to feel more exquisitely than did their supposedly less refined contemporaries and antecedents. Aesthetic Realism is based on the idea that reality, or the world, has a structure that is beautiful- like the structure of a successful poem or painting. Literature, the World, & Aesthetic Realism. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. A Letter of Regret to the American Press From the Students of Aesthetic Realism Every person is always trying to put together opposites in himself. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health. ![]() The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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