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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Table of Contents:
- 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
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345)