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Author Schönfelder, Christa, author.

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

Publication Info. Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (345 pages)
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Series Lettre
Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
Language In English.
Note Originally presented as doctoral dissertation, University of Zurich, 2012.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
Contents Introduction : towards a reconceptualization of trauma -- Theorizing trauma : Romantic and postmodern perspectives on mental wounds -- The "wounded mind" : feminism, trauma, and self-narration in Mary Wollstonecraft's The wrongs of woman -- Anatomizing the "demons of hatred" : traumatic loss and mental illness in William Godwin's Mandeville -- A tragedy of incest : trauma, identity, and performativity in Mary Shelley's Mathilda -- Polluted daughters : incestuous abuse and the postmodern tragic in Jane Smiley's A thousand acres -- Inheriting trauma : family bonds and memory ties in Anne Michaels's Fugitive pieces -- The body of evidence : family history, guilt, and recovery in Trezza Azzopardi's The hiding place.
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.
Note This work is licensed by Knowledge Unlatched under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Children in literature.
English fiction -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Families in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
Roman anglais -- Histoire et critique.
Roman anglais.
Littérature anglaise -- 18e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise -- 19e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise.
Familles dans la littérature.
Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature.
Literary studies: general.
Literature and literary studies.
Literature: history and criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Familie -- g:Motiv.
Kind -- g:Motiv.
Psychisches Trauma -- g:Motiv.
Children in literature
English fiction
English literature
Families in literature
Psychic trauma in literature
Chronological Term 1700-1999
Indexed Term literature.
trauma.
romanticism.
british studies.
postmodernism.
cultural studies.
psychoanalysis.
literary studies.
childhood.
novel.
general literature studies.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Title Wounds and words, childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction
Other Form: Print version: Schönfelder, Christa. Wounds and words 9783837623789 (OCoLC)852787726
ISBN 9783839423783 (PDF)
3839423783 (PDF)
1306996198
9781306996198
9783837623789 (print)
3837623785 (print)
Standard No. AU@ 000063025519
AU@ 000068969806
DEBSZ 434806587
GBVCP 896273261

 
    
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