Bøger af Roger (Birkbeck Luckhurst

Stanley Kubrick hailed The Shining as 'the scariest horror film of all time' before its release in 1980.

Outlines the origins of the concept of trauma across psychiatric, legal and cultural-political sources from the 1860s to the coining of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in 1980. This book covers a diverse range of cultural works, including writers such as Toni Morrison, Stephen King and W G Sebald.