Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

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Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Traumatic Realism and Romance in Contemporary British Narrative
Part I Ghost Stories, Repetition and the Transmission of Trauma
	1 “The past won’t fit into memory without something left over”: Pat Barker’s Another World, in between Narrative Entropy and Vulnerability
	2 Hauntology as Compromise between Traumatic Realism and Spooky Romance in Sarah Waters’s The Little Stranger
	3 Personal Trauma, Romance and Ghostly Traces in Justine Picardie’s Daphne
Part II Narratives of Distress and Individual Trauma
	4 Romance, Trauma and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love
	5 Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail in Ian McEwan’s Atonement
	6 Purloining the Image of Trauma: Photography, Testimony and Self Articulation in Peter Roche’s Unloved
Part III Collective Trauma, History and Ethics
	7 “Strangers to ourselves”: Story-telling and the Quest for the Self in Martin Amis’s Trauma Fictions
	8 Individual Choice and Responsibility for the Other: Two Ethical Paths in the Representation of Trauma in Jeanette Winterson’s and Graham Swift’s Postmodernist Romances
	9 “And to defeat that shadow . . . he had to take it in homeopathically, in minute quantities of conscious reparation”: Adam Thorpe’s Unsentimental Historical Romances
	10 Greek Romance, Alternative History and Political Trauma in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s Watchmen
Part IV Therapeutic Romance
	11 From Traumatic Iteration to Healing Narrativisation in Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie: The Therapeutic Role of Romance
	12 Checking Out: Trauma and Genre in Ian McEwan’s: The Child in Time
	13 “Redeemed, Now and For Ever”: Traumatic and Therapeutic Realism in Peter Ackroyd’s The House of Doctor Dee
Contributors
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