Alexandra Gray

Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474417693
• Artikelnr.: 54674923

Autorenporträt

Alexandra Gray is a Sessional Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of academic essays on the late-Victorian-and-Edwardian woman writer Lucas Malet, and the author of forthcoming articles and essays on the New Woman, nineteenth-century medical history and the female orphan figure in Victorian fiction.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, 1. Saintly Self-Harm: The Victorian Religious Context
2. Beyond the Fleshly Veil: Self-Starvation in the New Woman Novel
3. Deconstructing the Drunkard's Path: Drunken Bodies in New Woman Fiction
4. Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle
Conclusion
Works Cited.