Representation of Bodily Pain in Late Nineteenth-Century English Culture - Bending, Lucy (Lecturer in English, Lecturer in English, University of Wales, Aberyswyth)

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.