Self-Harm in New Woman Writing

by Alexandra Gray

Book Overview

Traces Victorian self-harm through an engagement with literary fiction

Self-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 self-starvation, excessive drinking and self-mutilation, this study explores narratives of female resistance to Victorian patriarchy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474452426
• ISBN13: 9781474452427
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"