Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust

Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust
Author: T. Brennan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011-01-03
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230117546

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Thomas Brennan finds roots of the 'sensibility of trauma' by returning to the work of Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot. By reading these poets of mourning through the framework of trauma, Brennan reflects on our traumatized moment and weighs two potential responses - the fantasy of transcendence and the ethic of trust.