Diseases and disorders in contemporary fiction : the syndrome syndrome / edited by T. J. Lustig and James Peacock

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 The Naturalistic Turn, the Syndrome, and the Rise of the
Neo-Phenomenological Novel
PATRICIA WAUCH
2 Mapping the Syndrome Novel
STEPHEN J. BURN
3 From Syndrome to Sincerity: Benjamin Kunkel’s Indecision
ADAM KELLY
4 "We learned to tell our story walking:" Tourette’s and Urban
Space in Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn
JAMES PEACOCK
5 The Pathologies of Mobility: Time Travel as Syndrome in
The Time Traveller’s Wife, La Jetee and Twelve Monkeys
BRIAN BAKER
6 Syndrome, Symptom, and Trauma Chains in American
Pre- and Post-9/11 Novels
BENT SORENSEN
7 Mind and Brain: The Representation of Trauma in Martin
Amis’ Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan’s Saturday
NICK BENTLEY
8 "Two-way traffic"? Syndrome as Symbol in Richard Powers’
The Echo Maker
T.J. LUSTIG
9 "I wanted unheimlich [... ] but of the right kind. Strangeness
and Strangerness without the blank despair:" Trauma and
Travel in the Works of Jenny Diski
JOANNA PRICE
10 The Human Condition?
MARTYN BRACEWELL
11 A Psychiatrist’s Opinion of the Neuronovel
LISETTA LOVETT
Annotated Bibliography of Primary Materials
NICOLA BRINDLEY
Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Materials
HANNAH MERRY