{"product_id":"narrating-trauma-gretchen-braun-9780814214848","title":"Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress Disorders","description":"Neurasthenia, rail shock, hysteria. In \u003ci\u003eNarrating Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e, Gretchen Braun traces the nineteenth-century prehistory of those mental and physical responses that we now classify as post-traumatic stress and explores their influence on the Victorian novel. Engaging dialogues between both present-day and nineteenth-century mental science and literature, Braun examines novels that show the development of the mental dysfunction known as nervous disorder, positing that it was understood not as a failure of reason but instead as an organically based, crippling disjunction between the individual mind and its social context-with sufferers inhabiting spaces between sanity and madness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Spanning from the early Victorian period to the fin de siècle and encompassing realist, Gothic, sentimental, and sensation fiction, \u003ci\u003eNarrating Trauma\u003c\/i\u003e studies trauma across works of fiction by Charlotte Brontë, Emily Jolly, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy. In doing so, Braun brings both nineteenth-century science and current theories of trauma to bear on the narrative patterns that develop around mentally disordered women and men feminized by nervous disorder, creating a framework for novelistic critique of modern lifestyles, stressors, and institutions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gretchen Braun\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814214843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814214848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2023","brand":"Gretchen Braun","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44057260818687,"sku":"9780814214848","price":69.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0352d70c-0b66-4d4b-8cfb-dc21c947f4d4.jpg?v=1685045947","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrating-trauma-gretchen-braun-9780814214848","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}