David B. Morris resigned in 1982 from the University of Iowa, where he was professor of English, to move to Michigan and devote himself to writing. An earlier book, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984), won the Gottshalk Price of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

• FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionILIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?2THE MEANINGS OF PAIN3AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC4THE PAIN OF COMEDY5HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER6VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICSOF SUFFERING7PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD8THE USES OF PAIN9PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY ANDAFFLICTION10SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 22411TRAGIC PAIN12THE FUTURE OF PAINNotesIndexCONTENTS

David B. Morris resigned in 1982 from the University of Iowa, where he was professor of English, to move to Michigan and devote himself to writing. An earlier book, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984), won the Gottshalk Price of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

• FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionILIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?2THE MEANINGS OF PAIN3AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC4THE PAIN OF COMEDY5HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER6VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICSOF SUFFERING7PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD8THE USES OF PAIN9PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY ANDAFFLICTION10SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 22411TRAGIC PAIN12THE FUTURE OF PAINNotesIndexCONTENTS

David B. Morris resigned in 1982 from the University of Iowa, where he was professor of English, to move to Michigan and devote himself to writing. An earlier book, Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense (1984), won the Gottshalk Price of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

• FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionILIVING PAIN: MYSTERY OR PUZZLE?2THE MEANINGS OF PAIN3AN INVISIBLE EPIDEMIC4THE PAIN OF COMEDY5HYSTERIA, PAIN, AND GENDER6VISIONARY PAIN AND THE POLITICSOF SUFFERING7PAIN IS ALWAYS IN YOUR HEAD8THE USES OF PAIN9PAINFUL PLEASURES: BEAUTY ANDAFFLICTION10SEX, PAIN, AND THE MARQUIS DE SADE 22411TRAGIC PAIN12THE FUTURE OF PAINNotesIndexCONTENTS