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Film, Video Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War

Event video

Transcript: TEXT

About this Item

Title

  • Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War

Summary

  • Kluge Fellow Thomas Dodman discusses 18th and 19th century psychological designations of the impact of mass warfare on the human psyche -- a predecessor of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) -- and insights into the inner, emotional lives of common people at the dawn of the modern age.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2015-07-30.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History
  • -  Thomas Dodman, 18th century, 19th century, impact of mass warfare, post-traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, war, French Revolution, Civil War, War of 1812

Notes

  • -  Classification: History (General) and History of Europe.
  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  Thomas Dodman.
  • -  Recorded on 2015-07-30.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021689854

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-30, 2015. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689854/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & John W. Kluge Center, S. B. (2015) Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-30. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021689854/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body John W. Kluge Center. Before Trauma: Nostalgia, or the Melancholy of War. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-30, 2015. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021689854/>.