Narratives of Injury

Nineteenth-Century Coalfields Fiction
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-75188-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 496 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Literature and Health Humanities

Narratives of Injury redescribes the history of injury from the perspective of those most at risk, rather than medical professionals and other outsiders. Refocusing on the first-hand perspectives found in literary texts and journalistic accounts, it uncovers a self-conscious tradition of mining stories running through nineteenth-century writing. The book examines both non-canonical authors and famous novelists, including Charles Dickens, Joseph Skipsey, G. A Henty, E. H. Burnett, George Eliot, Edward Tirebuck, H.G. Wells and D. H. Lawrence. Their narratives revise our understanding both of injury and of the radical potential of fiction. Sudden physical injuries have often been configured as fundamentally unknowable by the victims themselves, particularly in studies of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Likewise, narratives of psychological trauma have been largely understood, in Cathy Caruth's words, as the 'attempt to master what was never fully grasped in the first place.' Such readings privilege the reader as a necessary interpreter of physical or psychological injury. By contrast, Narratives of Injury reasserts the significance of patients' own experiences, choices and actions.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buckland, Rosalyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter One

Pre-empting Accident: Household Words and Dickens’ Hard Times

Chapter Two

Real-time Disaster: Joseph Skipsey and the Hartley Colliery Disaster

Chapter Three

The Coalfields Novel and Eliot’s Felix Holt

Chapter Four

Long-Term Trauma: Zola’s Germinal and Tirebuck’s Miss Grace of All Souls’

Chapter Five

Universal Healthcare: Wells’ The Time Machine, In the Days of the Comet and Meanwhile

Chapter Six

Implications for the Canon: D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

Über Autor(innen)

Rosalyn Buckland completed her AHRC-funded PhD in English Literature (Medical Humanities) at King’s College London, having previously studied at Cambridge and Edinburgh. She has since trained as a doctor, and has first-hand experience providing emergency medical treatment both in-hospital and alongside the London Ambulance Service. She currently practices as a psychiatrist at CNWL NHS Trust.