Wounds and words : childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction /

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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 attem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schönfelder, Christa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Temas:
1700-1999
Children in literature.
English fiction > History and criticism.
English fiction.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature.
Families in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Roman anglais > Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise.
Familles dans la littérature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Familie > g:Motiv.
Kind > g:Motiv.
Psychisches Trauma > g:Motiv.
Children in literature
English fiction
English literature
Families in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
literature.
trauma.
romanticism.
british studies.
postmodernism.
cultural studies.
psychoanalysis.
literary studies.
childhood.
novel.
general literature studies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : towards a reconceptualization of trauma
  • Theorizing trauma : Romantic and postmodern perspectives on mental wounds
  • The "wounded mind" : feminism, trauma, and self-narration in Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman
  • Anatomizing the "demons of hatred" : traumatic loss and mental illness in William Godwin's Mandeville
  • A tragedy of incest : trauma, identity, and performativity in Mary Shelley's Mathilda
  • Polluted daughters : incestuous abuse and the postmodern tragic in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres
  • Inheriting trauma : family bonds and memory ties in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces
  • The body of evidence : family history, guilt, and recovery in Trezza Azzopardi's The hiding place.

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