This book examines Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection in several works by early British writers from the Restoration to the Romantic era. This period saw an

This book considers melancholy language in representative works by several British women writers in late Stuart England. To understand how these women writers u

This collection features studies on trauma, literary theory, and psychoanalysis in women’s writing. It examines the ways in which literature helps to heal the

This collection features studies on trauma, literary theory, and psychoanalysis in women's writing. It examines the ways in which literature helps to heal the w

This volume examines the ways in which trauma alters women’s identities. While some of the chapters look deeply at individual experiences, many of the contrib