Wounds and Words
Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction
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Author(s)
Schönfelder, Christa
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
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 GodwinISBN
9783839423783Publisher
transcript VerlagPublisher website
http://www.transcript-verlag.dePublication date and place
Bielefeld, Germany, 2013-05-15Grantor
Series
Lettre,Classification
Literary studies: general