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Memoried flesh: shock and trauma in late nineteenth-century Russian fiction

Hamrick, Anna LUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign2016

This dissertation focuses on representations of nervous shock and trauma in nineteenth-century Russian literature, with special focus on the works by Fedor Dostoevsky and Anton Chekhov. The current genealogy of trauma relies heavily on the work of Sigmund Freud and of subsequent scholars and is …

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