"With contributions by established experts in the fields of history, language, and literature, as well as early career scholars, Early Modern Trauma explores what trauma-seen through an analytical lens-can reveal about the early modern period and,...
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"With contributions by established experts in the fields of history, language, and literature, as well as early career scholars, Early Modern Trauma explores what trauma-seen through an analytical lens-can reveal about the early modern period and, conversely, what conceptualizations of psychological trauma from the early modern period can tell us about trauma theory itself"--
xii, 397 Seiten,
7 Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß),
24 cm
Bemerkung(en):
Introduction. Reading historical trauma : moving backwards to move forward / Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards -- Devastated nature : the emotions of natural world catastrophe in sixteenth-century France / Susan Broomhall -- Historicizing rape trauma : identification with the aggressor in early modern humoral theory and The rape of Lucrece (1594) / Zachariah Long -- The trauma of self : Hannah Allen and seventeenth-century women's spiritual writing / Amelia Zurcher -- "Wee perish with hunger helpe us" : early modern ciphering and the expressions of trauma / Katherine Ellison -- Soliciting sympathy : the search for psychological trauma in seventeenth-century English Civil War maimed soldiers' petitions / Ismini Pells -- Hans Sloane and the melancholy slave / Peter Walmsley -- Representations of loss and recovery in Unca Eliza Winkfield's The female American / Melissa Antonucci -- Stories of trauma in early modern Ireland / Eamon Darcy -- Trauma, psychological coercion, and slaves who love their masters : the case of William Okeley / Adam R. Beach -- Imperfect enjoyments and female disappointments : understanding trauma in Aphra Behn's "The disappointment" and in her Account of the death of a royal slave / Cynthia Richards -- Trauma, exile, and the birth of Jacobitism / Erin Peters -- Tragic trauma? Remorse, repetition, and the Orestes myth / Joseph Harris -- Trauma, ritual, and the temporality of war in George Farquhar's The recruiting officer / Tamar LeRoy -- For those who did not see it : transgenerational trauma and postmemory in Defoe's A journal of the plague year / Andreas K.E. Mueller -- Afterword. Early modern trauma and the generation of satire / Melinda Rabb