LEADER 03580oam 2200469 450 001 9910484028603321 005 20230823001319.0 010 $a3-030-45469-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-45469-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011528461 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6382154 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-45469-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011528461 100 $a20210417d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn|008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aParents and children in the mid-Victorian novel $etraumatic encounters and the formation of family /$fMadeleine Wood 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2020] 210 4$d©2020 215 $a1 online resource (XXII, 344 p. 1 illus.) 311 $a3-030-45468-1 327 $a1. Crisis in Relations: Psychic Wounds, Fantasy, and the Construction of Family -- 2. Emily and Charlotte Brontë ? Childhood Passions and Pathologies: Wuthering Heights and Shirley -- 3. Charles Dickens ? Lost Children and ?Primal Scenes?: ?the ?autobiographical fragment?, Dombey and Son, and Great Expectations -- 4. Wilkie Collins ? Inheritance and the Vampiric: No Name and Armadale -- 5. Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot ? Mourning and Elegy: North and South and The Mill on the Floss. 330 $a?Madeleine Wood?s study of cross-generational trauma in mid-nineteenth-century fiction is both provocative and persuasive in offering fresh new readings of canonical texts. Her focus on the ?afterwardsness? curve of repetition, as fictional parents transmit their own traumas to their children, shocks us into deeper understanding of family secrets and their lasting reverberations.? - Valerie Sanders, Professor of English, University of Hull, UK This book produces an original argument about the emergence of ?trauma? in the nineteenth-century through new readings of Dickens, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Collins, Gaskell and Elliot. Madeleine Wood argues that the mid-Victorian novels present their protagonists in a state of damage, provoked and defined by the conditions of the mid-century family: the cross-generational relationship is presented as formative and traumatising. By presenting family relationships as decisive for our psychological state as well as our social identity, the Victorian authors pushed beyond the contemporary scientific models available to them. Madeleine Wood analyses the literary and historical conditions of the mid-century period that led to this new literary emphasis, and which paved the way for the emergence of psychoanalysis in Vienna at the fin de siècle. Analysing a series of theoretical texts, Madeleine Wood shows that psychoanalysis shares the mid-Victorian concern with the unequal relationship between adult and child, focusing her reading through Freud?s early writings and Jean Laplanche?s ?general theory of seduction?. 606 $aParent and child in literature 606 $aFamilies in literature 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aParent and child in literature. 615 0$aFamilies in literature. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a823.8 700 $aWood$b Madeleine$0887454 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484028603321 996 $aParents and children in the mid-Victorian novel$91982543 997 $aUNINA