Between the Psyche and the Polis

Dr Michael Rossington is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. His publications include editions of Mary Shelley's Valperga (Oxford University Press, 2000) and Percy Shelley's The Cenci in The Poems of Shelley, Volume 2, eds Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (Longman, 2000), and he is co-editor, with Gill Perry, of Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture (Manchester University Press, 1994). He is currently completing a monograph on the past in the writings of Percy Shelley. Dr Anne Whitehead is Lecturer in the Department of English Literary and Linguistic Studies at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She has had articles published in Modern Fiction Studies and Textual Practice and is currently completing a book on trauma theory.

• Contents: Introduction; Between the Psyche and the Polis, Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead; Part I: History in Theory: After Marx and Freud: Old idolatry: rethinking ’ideology’ and ’materialism’, Simon Jarvis; History and the sacred in de Man and Benjamin, Nigel Mapp; Freud and the force of history: The Project for a Scientific Psychology, Clare Connors; Part II: Traumatic histories: Parting words: trauma, silence and survival, Cathy Caruth; Reading Trauma: Charlotte Delbo and the struggle to represent, Victoria Stewart; Trauma, testimony and the survivor: calling forth the ghosts of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Stephenie Young; Part III: memory and cultural history: In the penal colony, John Frow; Séance fiction: confronting the ghost(s) of the Mexican Revolution in Madero, el otro by Ignacio Solares, Robin Fiddian; The Angel of Memory: ’Working Through’ the history of the New South Africa, Christopher J. Colvin; Part IV: Nachträglichkeit: History and afterwardsness: History and trauma: reviewing Forrest Gump, Susannah Radstone; Traumatic memories of remembering and forgetting, Elizabeth Cowie; Aftermath: Pastiche, the postmodern and the end of history in Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus, Rachel Carroll; Index.