Narrating trauma : Victorian novels and modern stress disorders

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    • Braun, Gretchen

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Narrating trauma : Victorian novels and modern stress disorders

Gretchen Braun

The Ohio State University Press, [2022], ©2022

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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "Examines the pre-history of psychic and somatic responses to trauma known as PTSD as they influence canonical and lesser-known Victorian novels by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jolly, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy"-- Provided by publisher

Summary: "Neurasthenia, rail shock, hysteria. In Narrating Trauma, Gretchen Braun traces the nineteenth-century prehistory of those mental and physical responses that we now classify as post-traumatic stress and explores their influence on the Victorian novel. Engaging dialogues between both present-day and nineteenth-century mental science and literature, Braun examines novels that show the development of the mental dysfunction known as nervous disorder, positing that it was understood not as a failure of reason but instead as an organically based, crippling disjunction between the individual mind and its social context-with sufferers inhabiting spaces between sanity and madness. Spanning from the early Victorian period to the fin de siècle and encompassing realist, Gothic, sentimental, and sensation fiction, Narrating Trauma studies trauma across works of fiction by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jolly, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy. In doing so, Braun brings both nineteenth-cen

収録内容

  • Introduction: Nervous disorder, narrative disorder, and perspectives from the margins
  • Contemporary trauma studies and nineteenth-century nerves
  • "Dim as a wheel fast spun": repetition and instability of memory in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
  • "I have a choice": Emily Jolly reframes women's agency
  • Wilkie Collins and George Eliot confront accidents of modernity
  • Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and the "self-unmade" man
  • Conclusion: Expanding our frame
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