Title Self-harm in new woman writing / Alexandra Gray.

Publication Info.	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018]
	©2018

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Description	1 online resource (x, 237 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture
	Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-224) and index.
Contents	Saintly self-harm: the Victorian religious context -- Beyond the fleshly veil: self-starvation in the new woman novel -- Deconstructing the drunkard's path: drunken bodies in new woman fiction -- Damaging the body politic: self-mutilation as spectacle.
Summary	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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Subject	English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	English fiction.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Mental illness in literature.
	Mental illness in literature.
	Women in literature.
	Women in literature.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Gray, Alexandra. Self-harm in new woman writing. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2018] 9781474417686 (DLC) 2018295111 (OCoLC)1012885365
ISBN	9781474417693 (electronic book)
	1474417698 (electronic book)
	9781474417709 (epub)
	1474417701 (epub)
	9781474417686 (hardback)
	147441768X (hardback)