Wounded Hearts

by Travis, Jennifer

• ISBN13: 9780807856352
• ISBN10: 0807856355
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr

Summary

From the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Travis traces the history of men and emotions in American discourse. She argues that injury became a comfortable vocabulary--particularly among white middle-class men--through which to articulate and to claim a range of emotional wounds. Debates about injury that flourished in the cultural arenas of medicine, psychology, and the law spilled over into the realm of fiction, Travis demonstrates, in works by Stephen Crane, William Dean Howells, Willa Cather, Henry James, and Edith Wharton.

Author Biography

Jennifer Travis is assistant professor of English at St. John's University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments,	ix
Introduction,	1	(22)
one Soldier's Heart: The Vocabulary of Injury and the American Civil War,	23	(28)
two Emotional Equity?: William Dean Howells and the Divorce Novel,	51	(28)
three Things Not Named: Willa Cather's Lost Men, Criminal Conversations, and Emotional Auras,	79	(26)
four On Personal Quantity: Psychic Injury in Henry James's The Golden Bowl,	105	(32)
five The Science of Affect: Professionals Reading and the Case of Ethan Frome,	137	(26)
Epilogue,	163	(6)
Notes,	169	(20)
Bibliography,	189	(24)
Index,	213