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Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Paperback)
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Self-Harm in New Woman Writing (Paperback)
Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
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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 embedded in the work of
both canonical and largely unknown women writers of the 1880s and
1890s, including Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross. The book
argues that the conditions of modernity now associated with
self-harm in twentieth-century psychiatry (but beginning at the Fin
de Siecle) provided the socio-cultural backdrop for a surge of
interest in self-harm as a site of imaginative exploration at a
time when women's role in society was rapidly changing. Key
Features Highly interdisciplinary, combining medical history,
archival and periodical research, art history, gender studies and
literary studies Re-assessment of well-known New Woman authors as
well as original research into newly discovered New Woman authors
First book-length examination of self-harm in Victorian literary
fiction First study to suggest that Victorian self-harm (broadly
speaking) can be traced through an engagement with literary fiction
long before its emergence as a clinical category of behavior in the
twentieth century Reappraisal of New Woman studies suggesting some
of the ways very different types of New Woman writing converged
around a single thematic concern, and attempts to account for this
in socio-historic (and formal) terms Detailed discussion of the
work of Mary Angela Dickens and Victoria Cross, two comparatively
unknown authors (almost no scholarly work currently exists on
Dickens's writing)
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