The Theater of Trauma: American Modernist Drama and the Psychological Struggle for the American Mind, 1900-1930

by Michael Cotsell

The Theater of Trauma is a groundbreaking rereading of the relations between psychology and drama in the age of Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, and their many brilliant contemporaries. American modernist Theater of Trauma drew its vision from the psychological investigation of trauma and its consequences - among them hysteria and dissociation - made by French and American psychiatrists such as the great Pierre Janet, Alfred Binet, William James,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820474665
• ISBN13: 9780820474663
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"