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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Lisa Kasmer Copyright 2018
222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge

222 Pages
by Routledge
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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 early nineteenth century to the socially incisive realist novels that emerged later in the century,... Read more

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

Biography

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.

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