Trauma, Transcendence, and Trust Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Eliot Thinking Loss

by Brennan, Thomas

• ISBN13: 9780230104969
• ISBN10: 0230104967
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In the wake of psychoanalysis and the birth of therapy, trauma is a powerful concept in twenty-first century culture. Thomas J. Brennan, S.J. 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.

Author Biography

Thomas J. Brennan, S.J. is Assistant Professor of English at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Traumatized Trust	p. 1
Gazes of Trauma, Spots of Trust: Wordsworth's Memorials in The Prelude	p. 33
"Wound" in the "Living Soul": Tennyson's In Memoriam	p. 73
Castrated Referentiality: Eliot's The Waste Land	p. 119
Epilogue: "The Tone We Trusted Most": Merrill's The Book of Ephraim	p. 163
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 191
Index	p. 197
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