Examines representations of political, psychological, and sexual violence in seven novels by American women.

This edited collection argues that trauma in literature must be read through a theoretical pluralism that allows for an understanding of trauma's variable repre

This collection features studies on trauma, literary theory, and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines the ways in which literature helps to heal the

As a concept, 'trauma' has attracted a great deal of interest in literary studies. A key term in psychoanalytic approaches to literary study, trauma theory repr

Literary Aesthetics of Trauma: Virginia Woolf and Jeanette Winterson investigates a fundamental shift, from the 1920s to the present day, in the way that trauma