Traumatic tales : British nationhood and national trauma in nineteenth-century literature / edited by Lisa Kasmer.
"Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature from the emergence of British nationalism through the height of the British Empire. From the national tales of the earl...
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New York, NY ; Abingdon, Oxon :
Routledge,
2018.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Lisa Kasmer
- Part I. National trauma/national culture. Mourning in plain view: on monuments, trauma, historical memory, and forgetting / Diane Long Hoeveler ; Nostalgia and trauma in Thomas De Quincey's 'The English Mail-Coach' / Ivan Ortiz
- Part II. Reimagining national and colonial trauma. Mansfield Park and National (be)longing ; Systemic traumas and Irish identity in Florence Macarthy / Anne Frey
- Gothic internationalism: Irish Nationalist critiques of empire as a system of violence and trauma / Amy E. Martin
- Part III. Trauma at home. Trauma and the torturer: of monsters and military men and Morant Bay / Katherine J. Anderson ; Men who would not be kings: sacrilizing Colonialist trauma in Kipling's "Man who would not be king" / Andrea Rehn
- Part IV. Sins of the family, sins of the nation. Trauma at the heart of empire: the "sins of the nation" and Barbauld's Eighteen hundred and eleven / James M. Garrett ; Gothic secretions: deconstructing the "family" / David Punter
- Bibliography
- List of contributors
- Index.