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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 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))
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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.