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oapen-20.500.12657-314542021-11-15T08:22:31Z Wounds and Words Schönfelder, Christa 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 bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general 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. 2017-03-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:31 2020-04-01T13:35:48Z 2020-04-01T13:35:48Z 2013-05-15 book 627792 OCN: 1023569786 9783839423783 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31454 eng Lettre application/pdf n/a 627792.pdf transcript Verlag 10.14361/transcript.9783839423783 100522 10.14361/transcript.9783839423783 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783839423783 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Bielefeld, Germany 100522 KU Select 2016 Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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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