Title: Trauma, transcendence, and trust
Description: "Trauma, Transcendence and Trust takes up the idea of trauma as one of the lenses through which the twenty first century interprets experience. One place to excavate the roots of this sensibility is in three poets of mourning whose work bridges the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Wordsworth's haunted wanderings, Tennyson's trance, and Eliot's negative epiphanies: these experiences receive fresh attention in Trauma, Transcendence and Trust. Can a new ethic of trust address the repetition of trauma? In the process, can it replace our fantasies of transcendence? These poets repeatedly pose such questions in the hope that someone will listen"--
Subjects: Psychic trauma in literature, English poetry, Trust in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Transcendence (Philosophy) in literature, Loss (Psychology) in literature, History and criticism, Wordsworth, william, 1770-1850, Tennyson, alfred tennyson, baron, 1809-1892, Eliot, t. s. (thomas stearns), 1888-1965, English poetry, history and criticism, 19th century
People: William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Alfred Tennyson Tennyson Baron (1809-1892), T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
Time periods: 19th century