Wounds and words childhood and family trauma in romantic and postmodern fiction

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 und...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection funder (funder)
Otros Autores: Schönfelder, Christa, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld, Germany transcript Verlag 2013
Bielefeld, Germany : [2014]
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Lettre (Transcript (Firm))
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009419812506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Contents 5 Acknowledgments 7 Introduction 9 Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma 27 Chapter Two: The "Wounded Mind" 87 Chapter Three: Anatomizing the "Demons of Hatred" 127 Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest 163 Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters 203 Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma 241 Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence 279 Conclusion 315 Works Cited 323