Title: Wounds and Words
Description: 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.
Subjects: Literary studies: general, English literature, History and criticism, English fiction, Psychic trauma in literature, Families in literature, Children in literature, Modern Literature