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Pain and the Aesthetics of US Literary Realism Swash-Plate Geometry Written by a leading translationalThe postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Medico scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. 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