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Record Nr.

UNINA9910213858103321

Autore

Schönfelder Christa <p>Christa Schönfelder, Universität Zürich, Schweiz </p>

Titolo

Wounds and Words : Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction / Christa Schönfelder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : transcript Verlag, 2014

2014, c2013

ISBN

9783839423783

3839423783

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (347 p.)

Collana

Lettre

Disciplina

823.0093561

Soggetti

Trauma

Childhood

Novel

Romanticism

Postmodernism

Literature

Psychoanalysis

British Studies

General Literature Studies

Cultural Studies

Literary Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.