Wounds and Words : Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
Schönfelder, Christa
Wounds and Words : Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20130515
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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.
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Literary studies: general
Literature Trauma Childhood Novel Romanticism Postmodernism Literature Psychoanalysis British Studies General Literature Studies Cultural Studies Literary Studies Incest Mary Wollstonecraft Mental disorder Novella Percy Bysshe Shelley Posttraumatic stress disorder William Godwin
Wounds and Words : Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction - Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 20130515
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
transcript.9783839423783 9783839423783
10.14361/transcript.9783839423783 doi
Literary studies: general
Literature Trauma Childhood Novel Romanticism Postmodernism Literature Psychoanalysis British Studies General Literature Studies Cultural Studies Literary Studies Incest Mary Wollstonecraft Mental disorder Novella Percy Bysshe Shelley Posttraumatic stress disorder William Godwin