Furman Humanities Center Events

CLP: Narrating Trauma in the Nineteenth Century and Now

McEachern (FUR 214)

The Covid-19 pandemic changed the way we think about PTSD: how can we understand psychic trauma related to anticipated danger rather than past harm? And how can we tell those stories? Surprisingly, nineteenth-century medicine, culture, and literature had theories about that. This CLP explores nineteenth-century narratives of mental pain in connection with our contemporary cultural […]