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Neo-Victorian Tropes of Trauma: The Politics of Bearing After-Witness to Nineteenth-Century Suffering (Neo-Victorian Series, vol. 1)
Swansea University Author:
Marie-luise Kohlke
Abstract
The first sustained exploration of neo-Victorianism's relation to historical trauma, trauma theory and memory discourse, this collection analyses contemporary fictional re-imaginings of the nineteenth century as interventions in collective memory and forms of belated witness-bearing and working...
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Amsterdam & New York
Rodopi
2010
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URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa11180 |
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The first sustained exploration of neo-Victorianism's relation to historical trauma, trauma theory and memory discourse, this collection analyses contemporary fictional re-imaginings of the nineteenth century as interventions in collective memory and forms of belated witness-bearing and working-though of past historical offences and suffering. |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |