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Wounds and Words Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction Christa Schönfelder
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schönfelder, Christa <p>Christa Schönfelder, Universität Zürich, Schweiz</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
- Lettre
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Trauma.
- Childhood.
- Novel.
- Romanticism.
- Postmodernism.
- Literature.
- Psychoanalysis.
- British Studies.
- General Literature Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Trauma.
- Childhood.
- Novel.
- Romanticism.
- Postmodernism.
- Literature.
- Psychoanalysis.
- British Studies.
- General Literature Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Literary Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Schönfelder, Wounds and Words Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Christa Schönfelder teaches English literature at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include Romanticism, postmodern fiction, trauma theory, and gender studies.
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma 27 Chapter Two: The "Wounded Mind" 87 Chapter Three: Anatomizing the "Demons of Hatred" 127 Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest 163 Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters 203 Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma 241 Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence 279 Conclusion 315 Works Cited 323
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839423783
- 3839423783
- OCLC:
- 1005838674
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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