Self-Harm in New Woman Writing / / Alexandra Gray.
Traces Victorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fictionSelf-Harm in New Woman Writing offers a trans-disciplinary study of Victorian literature, culture and medicine through engagement with the recurrent trope of self-harm in writing by and about the British New Woman. Focusing on sel...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Saintly Self-Harm: The Victorian Religious Context
- Chapter 2. Beyond the Fleshly Veil: Self-Starvation in the New Woman Novel
- Chapter 3. Deconstructing the Drunkard’s Path: Drunken Bodies in New Woman Fiction
- Chapter 4. Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle
- Conclusion
- Works Cited
- Index