Lucy Bending.

Lucy Bending. The Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English agriculture (Oxford English Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Pres 2000 Pp ix, 309 $6500 ISBN 0-19-818717-3

Lucy Bending's work surveys the ways in which bodily pain was understood during the last half of the nineteenth-century ranging from the retributive and redemptive force of orthodox Christianity to the neurological pathways of medicine to the distinguishing agent of cultural and social hierarchy implicit in evolutionary meditation As a kind of ironic coda to the opening

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