Umfang:
1 Online Ressource (x, 212 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-315-10048-7
Serie:
Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature 26
Inhalt:
"Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature from the emergence of British nationalism through the height of the British Empire. From the national tales of the early nineteenth century to the socially incisive realist novels that emerged later in the century, nationalism is inescapable in this literature, as much current scholarship acknowledges. Nineteenth-century national trauma, however, has only recently begun to be explored. Taking as its starting point the unsettling effects of nationalism, the essays in this collection expose the violence underlying empire-building, particularly in regard to subject identity. National violence--imperialism, colonialism and warfare--necessarily grounds nation-formation in deep-lying trauma. As the essays demonstrate, such fraught nexus are made visible in national tales as well as in political policy, exposed by means of theoretical and historical analyses to reveal psychological, political, social and individual trauma. This exploration of violence in the construction of national ideology in nineteenth-century Britain rethinks our understanding of cultural memory, national identity, imperialism, and colonialism, recent thrusts of Romantic and Victorian study in nineteenth-century literature."--Provided by publisher
Anmerkung:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: National Trauma/National Culture; 1 Mourning in Plain View: On Monuments, Trauma, Historical Memory, and Forgetting; 2 Nostalgia and Trauma in Thomas De Quincey's "The English Mail-Coach"; PART II: Reimagining National and Colonial Trauma; 3 Mansfield Park and National (Be)longing; 4 Systemic Traumas and Irish Identity in Florence Macarthy; 5 Gothic Internationalism: Irish Nationalist Critiques of Empire as a System of Violence and Trauma; PART III: Trauma at Home
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6 Trauma and the Torturer: Of Monsters and Military Men at Morant Bay7 Men Who Would Not Be Kings: Sacrilizing Colonialist Trauma in Kipling's "Man who would be King"; PART IV: Sins of the Family, Sins of the Nation; 8 Trauma at the Heart of Empire: The "Sins of the Nation" and Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; 9 Gothic Secretions: Deconstructing the "Family"; Bibliography; List of Contributors; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-138-10356-6
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-0-367-88864-0
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Anglistik
Schlagwort(e):
Englisch
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Literatur
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Nationalbewusstsein
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Nationalismus
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Psychisches Trauma
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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