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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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Main Author: Schönfelder, Christa (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2013
Series:Lettre
Subjects:
Literary studies: general
Literature
Trauma
Childhood
Novel
Romanticism
Postmodernism
Psychoanalysis
British Studies
General Literature Studies
Cultural Studies
Literary Studies
Incest
Mary Wollstonecraft
Mental disorder
Novella
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Posttraumatic stress disorder
William Godwin
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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.
ISBN:transcript.9783839423783
9783839423783
Access:Open Access

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