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Wounds and Words
Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2014
About this book
Trauma has become a hotly contested topic in literary studies. But interest in trauma is not new; its roots extend to the Romantic period, when novelists and the first psychiatrists influenced each others' investigations of the »wounded mind«. This book looks back to these early attempts to understand trauma, reading a selection of Romantic novels in dialogue with Romantic and contemporary psychiatry. It then carries that dialogue forward to postmodern fiction, examining further how empirical approaches can deepen our theorizations of trauma. Within an interdisciplinary framework, this study reveals fresh insights into the poetics, politics, and ethics of trauma fiction.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma
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Chapter Two: The “Wounded Mind”
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Chapter Three: Anatomizing the “Demons of Hatred”
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Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest
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Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters
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Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma
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Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence
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Conclusion
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Works Cited
323
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eBook published on:
March 17, 2014
eBook ISBN:
9783839423783
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
346
eBook ISBN:
9783839423783
Keywords for this book
Trauma; Trauma; Childhood; Childhood; Novel; Novel; Romanticism; Romanticism; Postmodernism; Postmodernism; Literature; Literature; Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis; British Studies; British Studies; General Literature Studies; General Literature Studies; Cultural Studies; Cultural Studies; Literary Studies; Literary Studies
Audience(s) for this book
For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
Creative Commons
BY-NC-ND 3.0
