1. See the introduction to Ruth Leys, Trauma: A Genealogy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
2. E. Ann Kaplan, Trauma Culture: The Politics of Terror and Loss in Media and Literature (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2005), 24.
3. Walter Benjamin influentially drew attention to the “traumatophile” in his essay “On some motifs in Baudelaire.” See Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, trans Henry Zohn, ed. and intro. Hannah Arendt (New York: Schoken Books, 1988), 155–200.
4. Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), 183
5. See Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977)