Cynthia Davis is the CWEWh Volume Editor for Volume 27, Life Writings
Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism
Cynthia J. Davis
- An original study of the vital role that pain plays in US literary realism
- Pays fresh attention to the ongoing cultural pursuit of painlessness as a critical chapter of the literary history of this period
- Highlights the realist aesthetic priorities shared by William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt
Complete Works of Edith Wharton 