Martina Domines is associate professor in the English Department at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.Charles I. Armstrong is professor of English literature at the University of Agder, Norway.

• Introduction, Martina Domines and Charles I. ArmstrongPart One: From the Early Modern Period to the Long Nineteenth Century – Human Suffering before the Birth of TraumaChapter One: Sleeplessness and Suffering in Shakespeare, Lisa HopkinsChapter Two: Negotiations of Suffering in Samuel Richardson’s Pamela, Tijana MatovicChapter Three: John Clare's Poetics of Suffering: Autobiographical Writings as the Embodiment of Romantic Nostalgia, Martina DominesChapter Four: Work as Toil in Tennyson’s “The Lotos-Eaters”, Borislav KneževicChapter Five: The ‘Pleasurable Suffering’ of Tolerance in Anthony Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right, Nina EngelhardtPart Two: Twentieth Century Literary Landscapes of SufferingChapter Six: “Iron Nails Ran In”: Modernism, Suffering and Humour in James Joyce’s Ulysses, Dominik WalleriusChapter Seven: Dark Material and Radical Healing in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Jovana PavicevicChapter Eight: Dealing with Suffering, Engaging with the Past: Problematic Vergangenheitsbewältigung in Philip Kerr's A Quiet Flame, Christine BerberichChapter Nine: “Our struggling bodies”: Writing Pain and Subjection in 20th Century U.S. War Writing, Julien BrugeronChapter Ten: “Destruam et ædificabo”: Personal and Historical Suffering within the Nostalgic Redemptive Narrative in John Banville’s The Untouchable, Jennifer CowePart Three: Twenty-first Century Kaleidoscopes of TraumaChapter Eleven: Derek Mahon’s Biography, Poetry, and Trauma, Charles I. ArmstrongChapter Twelve: “A Longing for Something Other”, Aging Female Selves Suffering, Writing and Historicizing Trauma in Kate Morton’s The Forgotten Garden, Marta Miquel-BaldellouChapter Thirteen: Building an Archive of Suffering in Philip Metres’ Sand Opera and Solmaz Sharif’s Look, Henrik TorjusenChapter Fourteen: “We are all victims”? Rethinking Vulnerability and Victimization in Literary Representations of Women’s Suffering in Miriam Toews’ Women Talking, Miriam Wallraven and Ksenija KondaliChapter Fifteen: “A Crack in Her/Bone Memory”: Recovering the Mother’s Story in Rosanna Deerchild’s Calling Down the Sky, Cristina StanciuChapter Sixteen: Suffering and Trauma: Douglas Stuart's Shuggie Bain as a Return to Realism, Zekiye AntakyaliogluAbout the Contributors