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Neurasthenia, rail shock, hysteria. In Narrating Trauma, Gretchen Braun traces the nineteenthcentury prehistory of those mental and physical responses that we now classify as posttraumatic stress and explores their influence on the Victorian novel. Engaging dialogues between both presentday and nineteenthcentury 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 contextwith sufferers inhabiting spaces between sanity and madness.Spanning from the early Victorian period to the fin de sicle and encompassing realist, Gothic, sentimental, and sensation fiction, Narrating Trauma studies trauma across works of fiction by Charlotte Bront, Emily Jolly, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Thomas Hardy. In doing so, Braun brings both nineteenthcentury 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.
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