Traumatic Tales: British Nationhood and National Trauma in Nineteenth-Century Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367888640 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Lisa Kasmer

Opis

This volume explores intersections of nationalism and trauma in Romantic and Victorian literature from the emergence of British nationalism through the height of the British Empire.

Spis treści

Introduction

Lisa Kasmer


Part I: National Trauma/National Culture

1. Mourning in Plain View: On Monuments, Trauma, Historical Memory, and Forgetting

Diane Long Hoeveler

2. Nostalgia, Trauma, and Temporal Organization in De Quincey’s The English Mail-Coach

Ivan Ortiz


Part II: Reimagining National and Colonial Trauma

3. Mansfield Park and National Loss

Lisa Kasmer

4.The Trauma of National Performance in Florence Macarthy

Anne Frey


5. Gothic Internationalism: Irish Nationalist Critiques of Empire as a System of Violence and Trauma

Amy E. Martin

Part III: Trauma at Home

6. Trauma and the Torturer: Of Monsters and Military Men at Morant Bay

Katherine J. Anderson

7. Men Who Would Not Be Kings: Sacrilizing Colonialist Trauma in Kipling’s Man Who Would Be King

Andrea Rehn

Part IV: Sins of the Family, Sins of the Nation

8. Imagining the End of Empire: The ‘Sins of the Nation’ and Barbauld’s Eighteen Hundred Eleven

James M. Garrett

9. Gothic Secretions: Deconstructing the ‘Family’

David Punter

O autorze

Lisa Kasmer is an Associate Professor of English at Clark University, Worcester, USA. She specializes in gender studies and women's writing in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literature and culture.