Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Note on Translations xv
7. Introduction: Literature, Trauma, and the Sign of Illness 1
8. Chapter 1 Hoffmann at the Battle of Dresden: “The Sandman” and the Napoleonic Wars 17
9. Chapter 2 Freud and World War I: The Uncanny Trauma of Contagion 41
10. Chapter 3 Inexplicable Tears: Trains, Wars, and Kafka’s Aesthetic of Indeterminacy 69
11. Conclusion: The Poetics of Trauma: Simulation, Causality, and the Crisis of Insurance 121
12. Notes 133
13. Works Cited 151
14. Index 165