{"product_id":"narrating-trauma-9780814214848","title":"Narrating Trauma","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeurasthenia, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpanning 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 doin","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038438818135,"sku":"9780814214848","price":56.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814214848.jpg?v=1750940322","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/narrating-trauma-9780814214848","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}