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""This collection provokes lively debates. The chapters have a shared interest in analyzing the apparent opposites of 'pleasure' and 'pain' as mutually reinforcing elements constitutive of a conflicted contemporary reality."" --Vanessa Meikle Schulman, author of Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America

"""This collection provokes lively debates. The chapters have a shared interest in analyzing the apparent opposites of 'pleasure' and 'pain' as mutually reinforcing elements constitutive of a conflicted contemporary reality."" --Vanessa Meikle Schulman, author of Work Sights: The Visual Culture of Industry in Nineteenth-Century America"

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Christopher J. Gilbert is associate professor of English in Communication and Media at Assumption University and author of Caricature and National Character: The United States at War and When Comedy Goes Wrong. His work has also appeared in numerous journals. John Louis Lucaites is professor emeritus of Rhetoric and Public Culture at Indiana University. He is author, coauthor, and editor of many works, most recently, The Public Image: Photography and Civic Spectatorship, coauthored with Robert Hariman.

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