William Dean Howells, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Charles Chesnutt embraced the concept of a heightened sensitivity to pain as a consequence of the civilizing process but departed from their peers by delineating alternative definitions of a superior sensibility indebted to suffering. The five US literary realists examined in this study resisted this contemporary revulsion from pain without going so far as to join those who celebrated suffering for its invigorating effects. Aesthetic Realism is based on the idea that reality, or the world, has a structure that is beautiful- like the structure of a successful poem or painting. 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 antecedents. A successful novel, for example, composes opposites. 2 3 In Siegel’s critical theory, the resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art. Siegel identified beauty as the making one, or unity, of opposites. Medico-scientific advances in anesthetics and analgesics and emergent religious sects like Christian Science made pain avoidance seem newly possible. Aesthetic Realism is based on the idea that reality, or the world, has a structure that is beautiful. The postbellum period saw many privileged Americans pursuing a civilized ideal premised on insulation from pain. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health Do these nineteenth-century variations on the geopolitical aesthetic continue to resonate today Crossing literary criticism, political theory, and longue. Aesthetic Realism is a philosophy, and its principles are based on strict provable science, although stated in ordinary language.
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