TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schonfelder,Christa
TI  - Wounds and Words: Childhood and Family Trauma in Romantic and Postmodern Fiction 
SN  - 9783839423783
PB  - transcript Verlag
KW  - Literary Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/6493618d-5fcb-4800-8430-61ecbc22a00c
ER  -