...Neil Ramsey Although Frankenstein has long been read in relation to revolutionary politics, there has been little specific discussion of the themes of suffering and the trauma of war in the novel, concerns that were central to much of Mary Shelley’s writing. Taking inspiration from Ahmed Saadawi’s...

... preoccupation with the trauma of the English Civil Wars pro- vides a way of understanding his relationship to history in general and to secret history in particular. The wars were a catastrophe of stunning mag- nitude luridly documented in print. The British Library s Thomason Col- lection alone includes over...

... of her tumor and her preparations for and details of the operation, which she underwent without anesthetic.27 One of the first of its kind, the account is perhaps the most widely known work of Burney s, with indelible descriptions of trauma: the Knife <rack>ling against the breast bone scraping...

... as a governess for almost forty-­five years, until his death in 1833, at the age of eighty-six.­ 21 All of O’Keeffe’s novels replay her early trauma of parental separation and foreign education.22 Several of them, like Zenobia, couch this trauma in religious terms.23 By the end of her life, O’Keeffe had...

... and occupy ourselves by uncovering and telling (salacious, scandalous, outrageous) secrets that displace other anxieties, and divert our attention away from historic trauma and irreparable loss. Displace, secrete, but not remove. In this special issue, war is told as scandal in high places. It appears...

... of a Wartime Childhood, arguing that each of these fragmented texts represents enlightened modernity as a condition of trauma. The traumatized witness is not a conscious or fully present witness; consequently, his testimony is neither immediate nor objectively distanced. Instead, as these texts...

... of covering a dramatic era in the his- tory of the two Aberdeen colleges, from their commitment to the conserva- tive episcopalianism of the restored Stuart regime, through the traumas of 104   Eighteenth-Century Life the 1688 Revolution, to their stubborn Jacobitism, which was radically purged...

... trauma Britannia s griefs, . . . my coun- try s woes (145) is couched in that long tradition of civil- war writing that stresses the intestine, the internecine, and especially the fratricidal: Behold sad Caledonia s horrid plain, What hellish fury ‰res the shouting bands! Ah see! with brother s...

..., and Zonitch’s hint that Evelina’s “descrip- tion of his behavior eerily echoes the trauma of rape” (p. 53) not only exaggerates the degree of Evelina’s “trauma,” it belittles the real horror of that to which she is comparing it. Similarly, to insist on reading Mme. Duval...

... to use that both to manage her own trauma and to articulate a political position. One common element in the captivity nar- rative is the sudden violence of the arrival of native Americans in a peace- ful homestead. Mary Rowlandson describes a member of her household who was chopt into the head...

..., Trauma, and Melancholy, 1790 – ​1840 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 2005), 131 – ​45. 4. For the fullest analyses of same-­sex sexuality in Caleb Williams, see Alex Gold, Jr., “It’s Only Love: The Politics of Passion in Godwin’s Caleb Williams,” Texas Studies in Language and Literature 19...

...- bridge: Cambridge Univ., 1985), pp. 1–21. 38. Howard, Practical Observations on the Natural History and Cure of the Venereal Disease (London, 1787), pp. 261–62. His contemporary F.␣ Swediaur devotes much of his final chapter to the trauma experienced by patients who merely imagine themselves...

... practitioner. Despite its unpalatable ingredients, Stephens's remedy presented an attractive alternative to lithotomy, the surgical removal of bladder stones, which risked “hemorrhage, septicemia, and trauma.” 16 Although William Cheselden had popularized a safer method of lithotomy in 1727...