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Post-traumatic culture : injury and interpretation in the nineties

In their dependence on late-Victorian models, the cultural narratives of 1990s America imply a crisis of "storylessnessdeeply implicated in the sense of injury that haunts the close of the twentieth century.
Print Book, English, 1998
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1998
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xv, 420 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780801857867, 9780801857874, 0801857864, 0801857872
38055814
Introduction: trauma and interpretation of injury
Traumatic heroism
Empty treasure: Sherlock Holmes in shock
Post-traumatic mourning: Rider Haggard in the underworld
Traumatic prophecy: H.G. Wells at the end of time
Post-traumatic style: Oscar Wilde in prison
Thinking through others: prosthetic fantasy and trauma
Abuse as a prosthetic system
Traumatic triumph in a black childhood
Traumatic economies in Schindler's list
Traumatic romance / Romance trauma
Berserk in Babylon
Amok at the apocalypse