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 / Wounds and words, childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction Christa Schönfelder. - 1 online resource (345 pages) - Lettre . - Lettre (Transcript (Firm)) .
Originally presented as doctoral dissertation, University of Zurich, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
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.
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.
In English.
9783839423783 3839423783 1306996198 9781306996198
100522 Knowledge Unlatched
1700-1999
Children in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
English literature.
Families in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
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.
literature. trauma. romanticism. british studies. postmodernism. cultural studies. psychoanalysis. literary studies. childhood. novel. general literature studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN771 / .S27 2013 PR401 / .S37 2013 PN56.5.C48 / S37 2013
823.0093561
Wounds and words : childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction / Wounds and words, childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction Christa Schönfelder. - 1 online resource (345 pages) - Lettre . - Lettre (Transcript (Firm)) .
Originally presented as doctoral dissertation, University of Zurich, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-345).
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.
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.
In English.
9783839423783 3839423783 1306996198 9781306996198
100522 Knowledge Unlatched
1700-1999
Children in literature.
English fiction--History and criticism.
English fiction.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century
English literature--History and criticism.--20th century
English literature.
Families in literature.
Psychic trauma in literature.
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.
literature. trauma. romanticism. british studies. postmodernism. cultural studies. psychoanalysis. literary studies. childhood. novel. general literature studies.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PN771 / .S27 2013 PR401 / .S37 2013 PN56.5.C48 / S37 2013
823.0093561