Wounds and words : childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction / / Christa Schönfelder

• Autore: Schönfelder Christa
• Pubblicazione: Bielefeld, Germany : , : Transcript, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (347 p.)
• Disciplina: 823.0093561
• Soggetto topico: English literature; Psychic trauma in literature; Children in literature
• Soggetto non controllato: British Studies; Childhood; Cultural Studies; General Literature Studies; Literary Studies; Literature; Novel; Postmodernism; Psychoanalysis; Romanticism
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Wounds and Words
• ISBN: 3-8394-2378-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996308844603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Lettre (Transcript (Firm))