Wounds and Words
Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Contents
Seiten 5 - 6 -
Acknowledgments
Seiten 7 - 8 -
Introduction
Seiten 9 - 26 -
Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma
Seiten 27 - 86 -
Chapter Two: The "Wounded Mind"
Seiten 87 - 126 -
Chapter Three: Anatomizing the "Demons of Hatred"
Seiten 127 - 162 -
Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest
Seiten 163 - 202 -
Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters
Seiten 203 - 240 -
Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma
Seiten 241 - 278 -
Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence
Seiten 279 - 314 -
Conclusion
Seiten 315 - 322 -
Works Cited
Seiten 323 - 346
27. April 2014, 346 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8394-2378-3
Dateigröße: 1.73 MB