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Wounds and words : childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction
Title
Wounds and words : childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction / Christa Schönfelder.
ISBN
9783839423783
3839423783
1306996198
9781306996198
9783837623789
3837623785
Publication
Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
Copyright Notice Date
©2013
Physical Description
1 online resource (345 pages)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Originally presented as doctoral dissertation, University of Zurich, 2012.
In English.
Summary
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.
Variant and related titles
Wounds and words, childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction
KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection. OCLC KB.
Other formats
Print version: Schönfelder, Christa. Wounds and words
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 01, 2022
Series
Lettre
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
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.
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