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Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 23–50.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Christina Zwarg When mesmerism first came to this hemisphere by way of St. Domingue, a complex association between radical abolition and the new science was born. Harriet Beecher Stowe takes up that association in her second abolitionist novel Dred . In so doing she charts an emergent trauma theory...
Journal Article
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 721–749.
Published: 01 December 2019
... fragmentation. In fact, this “new” criteria of coherence is quite old, and yet its physiological perspective matches that of current research, rooted in neurological studies of trauma. Thus the literary theory of trauma that emerges in the 1860s is no mere idiosyncrasy but the beginning of a story...
FIGURES
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the edge of her own life in order to cultivate
an understanding of another” (xix). While an invocation of understanding
another is commonplace enough in literary studies, applying this concept to
literary trauma theory is a bold move. Suffering, or pain, or any of the various
manifestations...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the edge of her own life in order to cultivate
an understanding of another” (xix). While an invocation of understanding
another is commonplace enough in literary studies, applying this concept to
literary trauma theory is a bold move. Suffering, or pain, or any of the various
manifestations...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the multiple ways in which
ghosts continue to haunt American literature. Drawing on both trauma theory
Book Reviews 201
and work on the contemporary Gothic, he adroitly interrogates “the numerous
fictional depictions of the spirit world...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the multiple ways in which
ghosts continue to haunt American literature. Drawing on both trauma theory
Book Reviews 201
and work on the contemporary Gothic, he adroitly interrogates “the numerous
fictional depictions of the spirit world...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 205–206.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the multiple ways in which
ghosts continue to haunt American literature. Drawing on both trauma theory
Book Reviews 201
and work on the contemporary Gothic, he adroitly interrogates “the numerous
fictional depictions of the spirit world...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 209–211.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the multiple ways in which
ghosts continue to haunt American literature. Drawing on both trauma theory
Book Reviews 201
and work on the contemporary Gothic, he adroitly interrogates “the numerous
fictional depictions of the spirit world...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 187–189.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the edge of her own life in order to cultivate
an understanding of another” (xix). While an invocation of understanding
another is commonplace enough in literary studies, applying this concept to
literary trauma theory is a bold move. Suffering, or pain, or any of the various
manifestations...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 194–197.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the multiple ways in which
ghosts continue to haunt American literature. Drawing on both trauma theory
Book Reviews 201
and work on the contemporary Gothic, he adroitly interrogates “the numerous
fictional depictions of the spirit world...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 200–202.
Published: 01 March 2015
... at the multiple ways in which
ghosts continue to haunt American literature. Drawing on both trauma theory
Book Reviews 201
and work on the contemporary Gothic, he adroitly interrogates “the numerous
fictional depictions of the spirit world...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 207–209.
Published: 01 March 2015
... the edge of her own life in order to cultivate
an understanding of another” (xix). While an invocation of understanding
another is commonplace enough in literary studies, applying this concept to
literary trauma theory is a bold move. Suffering, or pain, or any of the various
manifestations...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 153–174.
Published: 01 March 2011
... in the context of
the post-9/11 period. For one, as medical genealogist Ruth Leys points
out, many theories of trauma either explicitly or implicitly posit the
traumatic situation as entailing a fully integrated subject who is unex-
pectedly shattered by the intrusion of a shock from the outside...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (4): 689–696.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Jennifer C. James Abstract Reinterpreting nineteenth-century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard’s theory of “dread,” this essay situates the fear surrounding COVID-19 within a larger historical framework to consider the affective dimension of the virus’s emergence for African Americans. Copyright ©...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 633–641.
Published: 01 September 2015
... as an attitude of self-fashioning, the major focus is on the symbolic
role of clothing within the act of self-invention, including the ways Melville
positions himself in the writing process.
Southern Women Novelists and the Civil War: Trauma and Collective Memory in the
American Literary Tradition since...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 907–919.
Published: 01 December 2003
...
Trauma and Survival in Contemporary Fiction. By Laurie Vickroy. Charlottesville: Univ.
of Virginia Press. 2002. xvii, 266 pp. Cloth, $49.50; paper, $18.50.
Vickroy draws on object relations and postcolonial and trauma theory to define...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (3): 621–648.
Published: 01 September 2011
... Western representations of Africa in the postcolo-
nial era, making note of the particularly fraught position of the postwar
American writer. I will then turn to the emergence of trauma theory in
the 1990s and the expectation—soon troubled—that memoirs of crisis
might be capable of responsibly...
Journal Article
American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 451–458.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and engages trauma theory as
it has emerged through the work of Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Dominick
La Capra, and other theorists.
The Art of Literary Thieving: “The Catcher in the Rye,” “Moby-Dick,” and “Hamlet.” By
William Glasser. Amherst, N.Y.: Cambria Press. 2009. 199 pp. $104.99.
Glasser...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 367–393.
Published: 01 June 2003
... 2003.4.24 08:08
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understood. Feminist readings of the epistolary genre together with
theories of psychological trauma provide a method for reading Either
Is Love...
Journal Article
American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 443–445.
Published: 01 June 2011
... of literary
voices, from Japanese Americans experiencing the post-trauma of an earlier
generation to postmodernists influenced by the RAND corporation’s applica-
tions of game theory, makes clear how broadly the militarized West resonates
in the U.S. imagination. Given the agency granted to literature...
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