ISBN:
9783839423783
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
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Also issued in print and PDF version
Series Statement:
Lettre
Parallel Title:
Print version Wounds and Words, Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
DDC:
823.0093561
Keywords:
Art and society
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Land use Social aspects
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Nature Effect of human beings on
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English literature History and criticism 19th century
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English literature History and criticism 20th century
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English literature
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Families in literature
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Psychic trauma in literature
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English literature History and criticism 18th century
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English fiction History and criticism
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English fiction
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Children in literature
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Electronic books
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Hochschulschrift
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USA
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Concept-art
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Landschaft
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Umwelt
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Landnutzung
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
Introduction: Towards a Reconceptualization of Trauma -- Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma. Romantic and Postmodern Perspectives on Mental Wounds -- Chapter Two: The "Wounded Mind". Feminism, Trauma, and Self-Narration in Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman -- Chapter Three: Anatomizing the "Demons of Hatred". Traumatic Loss and Mental Illness in William Godwin's Mandeville -- Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest. Trauma, Identity, and Performativity in Mary Shelley's Mathilda -- Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters. Incestuous Abuse and the Postmodern Tragic in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres -- Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma. Family Bonds and Memory Ties in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces -- Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence. Family History, Guilt, and Recovery in Trezza Azzopardi's The Hiding Place
Description / Table of Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma -- Chapter Two: The "Wounded Mind" -- Chapter Three: Anatomizing the "Demons of Hatred" -- Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest -- Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters -- Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma -- Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
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