{"product_id":"early-modern-trauma-9781496208910","title":"Early Modern Trauma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe term \u003ci\u003etrauma\u003c\/i\u003e refers to a wound or rupture that disorients, causing suffering and fear. Trauma theory has been heavily shaped by responses to modern catastrophes, and as such trauma is often seen as inherently linked to modernity. Yet psychological and cultural trauma as a result of distressing or disturbing experiences is a human phenomenon that has been recorded across time and cultures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The long seventeenth century (1598–1715) has been described as a period of almost continuous warfare, and the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries saw the development of modern slavery, colonialism, and nationalism, and witnessed plagues, floods, and significant sociopolitical, economic, and religious transformation. In \u003ci\u003eEarly Modern Trauma\u003c\/i\u003eeditors Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards present a variety of ways early modern contemporaries understood and narrated their experiences. Studying accounts left by those who experienced extreme events increases our understanding o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This collection provides a breathtaking synthesis of over two decades of important work on trauma, literature, and history. It is a collection that offers a new way forward as much as it offers a clear look backward at the key texts and applications that have shaped and will continue to shape trauma studies for years to come.”—Thomas P. Anderson, author of \u003ci\u003ePerforming Early Modern Trauma from Shakespeare to Milton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Reading Historical Trauma: Moving Backward to Move Forward\u003cbr\u003e Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards\u003cbr\u003e Part 1. Reframing Modern Trauma\u003cbr\u003e 1. Devastated Nature: The Emotions of Natural World Catastrophe in Sixteenth-Century France\u003cbr\u003e Susan Broomhall\u003cbr\u003e 2. Historicizing Rape Trauma: Identification with the Aggressor in Early Modern Humoralism and The Rape of Lucrece (1594)\u003cbr\u003e Zackariah Long\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Trauma of Self: Hannah Allen and Seventeenth-Century Women’s Spiritual Writing\u003cbr\u003e Amelia Zurcher\u003cbr\u003e 4. Early Modern Ciphering and the Expression of Trauma\u003cbr\u003e Katherine Ellison\u003cbr\u003e 5. Soliciting Sympathy: The Search for Psychological Trauma in Petitions from Seventeenth-Century Maimed Soldiers\u003cbr\u003e Ismini Pells\u003cbr\u003e 6. Hans Sloane and the Melancholy Slave\u003cbr\u003e Peter Walmsley\u003cbr\u003e 7. Representations of Loss and Recovery in Unca Eliza Winkfield’s The Female American\u003cbr\u003e Melissa Antonucci\u003cbr\u003e Part 2. Recognizing Early Modern Trauma\u003cbr\u003e 8. Stories of Trauma in Early Modern Ireland\u003cbr\u003e Eamon Darcy\u003cbr\u003e 9. Trauma, Psychological Coercion, and Slaves Who Love Their Masters: The Case of William Okeley\u003cbr\u003e Adam R. Beach\u003cbr\u003e 10. Imperfect Enjoyments and Female Disappointments: Understanding Trauma in Aphra Behn’s “The Disappointment” and Oroonoko\u003cbr\u003e Cynthia Richards\u003cbr\u003e 11. Cultural Trauma, Exile, and the Birth of Jacobitism\u003cbr\u003e Erin Peters\u003cbr\u003e 12. Tragic Trauma?: Remorse, Repetition, and the Orestes Myth\u003cbr\u003e Joseph Harris\u003cbr\u003e 13. Trauma, Ritual, and the Temporality of War in George Farquhar’s The Recruiting Officer\u003cbr\u003e Tamar LeRoy\u003cbr\u003e 14. For Those Who Did Not See It: Transgenerational Trauma and Postmemory in Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year\u003cbr\u003e Andreas K. E. Mueller\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Early Modern Trauma and the Generation of Satire\u003cbr\u003e Melinda Rabb\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409223590231,"sku":"9781496208910","price":52.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496208910.jpg?v=1730506020","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/early-modern-trauma-9781496208910","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}