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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Main Author: Schönfelder, Christa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld Transcript [2013]©2013, 2013
Series:Lettre
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505 0 |a 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 
505 0 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345) 
653 |a LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 
653 |a Children in literature 
653 |a Families in literature 
653 |a Psychisches Trauma / g:Motiv 
653 |a Familie / g:Motiv 
653 |a Psychic trauma in literature 
653 |a English fiction 
653 |a English literature 
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520 |a 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