
Suffering in Anglophone Literatures
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Charles I. Armstrong is professor of English literature at the University of Agder, Norway.
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Part One: From the Early Modern Period to the Long Nineteenth Century - Human Suffering before the Birth of Trauma
Chapter One: Sleeplessness and Suffering in Shakespeare, Lisa Hopkins
Chapter Two: Negotiations of Suffering in Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Tijana Matovic
Chapter Three: John Clare's Poetics of Suffering: Autobiographical Writings as the Embodiment of Romantic Nostalgia, Martina Domines
Chapter Four: Work as Toil in Tennyson's "The Lotos-Eaters", Borislav Knezevic
Chapter Five: The 'Pleasurable Suffering' of Tolerance in Anthony Trollope's He Knew He Was Right, Nina Engelhardt
Part Two: Twentieth Century Literary Landscapes of Suffering
Chapter Six: "Iron Nails Ran In": Modernism, Suffering and Humour in James Joyce's Ulysses, Dominik Wallerius
Chapter Seven: Dark Material and Radical Healing in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Jovana Pavicevic
Chapter Eight: Dealing with Suffering, Engaging with the Past: Problematic Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Philip Kerr's A Quiet Flame, Christine Berberich
Chapter Nine: "Our struggling bodies": Writing Pain and Subjection in 20th Century U.S. War Writing, Julien Brugeron
Chapter Ten: "Destruam et ædificabo": Personal and Historical Suffering within the Nostalgic Redemptive Narrative in John Banville's The Untouchable, Jennifer Cowe
Part Three: Twenty-first Century Kaleidoscopes of Trauma
Chapter Eleven: Derek Mahon's Biography, Poetry, and Trauma, Charles I. Armstrong
Chapter Twelve: "A Longing for Something Other", Aging Female Selves Suffering, Writing and Historicizing Trauma in Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden, Marta Miquel-Baldellou
Chapter Thirteen: Building an Archive of Suffering in Philip Metres' Sand Opera and Solmaz Sharif's Look, Henrik Torjusen
Chapter Fourteen: "We are all victims"? Rethinking Vulnerability and Victimization in Literary Representations of Women's Suffering in Miriam Toews' Women Talking, Miriam Wallraven and Ksenija Kondali
Chapter Fifteen: "A Crack in Her/Bone Memory": Recovering the Mother's Story in Rosanna Deerchild's Calling Down the Sky, Cristina Stanciu
Chapter Sixteen: Suffering and Trauma: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain as a Return to Realism, Zekiye Antakyalioglu
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