Trauma and Romance in Contemporary British Literature

Susana Onega is Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, France.

Acknowledgments Introduction Susana Onega and Jean-Michel Ganteau 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 Working Through Jean-Michel Ganteau 2. Hauntology as Compromise between Traumatic Realism and Spooky Romance in Sarah Waters’ The Little Stranger Georges Letissier 3. Personal Trauma, Romance and Ghostly Traces in Justine Picardie’s Daphne Rosario Arias Part II. Narratives of Distress and Individual Trauma 4. Romance, Trauma and Repetition: Testing the Limits of Love Lynne Pearce 5. Some Versions of Romance Trauma as Generated by Realist Detail in Ian McEwan’s Atonement J. Hillis Miller 6. Purloining the Image of Trauma: Trauma, Photography, Testimony in Peter Roche’s Unloved (2007) Frédéric Regard Part III. Collective Trauma, History and Ethics 7. Strangers to Ourselves: The Quest for the Self in Martin Amis’ Trauma Fictions Ángeles de la Concha 8. Individual Choice and Responsibility for the Other: Two Ethical Paths in the Traumatic Realism of Jeanette Winterson’s and Graham Swift’s Postmodernist Romances Christian Gutleben 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 Maria Grazia Nicolosi 10. Greek Romance, Alternative History and Political Trauma in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen Andrés Romero-Jódar Part IV. Therapeutic Romance 11. From Traumatic Iteration to Healing Narrativisation in Shalimar the Clown by Salman Rushdie: The Therapeutic Role of Romance Anne-Laure Fortin-Tournès 12. Checking Out: Trauma and Genre in Ian McEwan’s The Child in Time Brian Diemert 13. "Redeemed, Now and For Ever": Traumatic and Therapeutic Realism in Peter Ackroyd’s The House of Doctor Dee Jakob Winnberg Index