UID:
almahu_9949465079302882
Format:
1 online resource (347 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9783839423783
Series Statement:
Lettre
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Towards a Reconceptualization of Trauma -- Chapter One: Theorizing Trauma. Romantic and Postmodern Perspectives on Mental Wounds -- Chapter Two: The "Wounded Mind". Feminism, Trauma, and Self-Narration in Mary Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman -- Chapter Three: Anatomizing the "Demons of Hatred".Traumatic Loss and Mental Illness in William Godwin's Mandeville -- Chapter Four: A Tragedy of Incest. Trauma, Identity, and Performativity in Mary Shelley's Mathilda -- Chapter Five: Polluted Daughters. Incestuous Abuse and the Postmodern Tragic in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres -- Chapter Six: Inheriting Trauma. Family Bonds and Memory Ties in Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces -- Chapter Seven: The Body of Evidence. Family History, Guilt, and Recovery in Trezza Azzopardi's The Hiding Place -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Schönfelder, Christa Wounds and Words Bielefeld : transcript,c2014 ISBN 9783837623789
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
