Suffering in Anglophone Literatures

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