Browsing History by Subject "Self Mutilation"
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"A hideous torture on himself": madness and self-mutilation in Victorian literature.
(2011-12)This paper suggests that late nineteenth-century definitions of self-mutilation, a new category of psychiatric symptomatology, were heavily influenced by the use of self-injury as a rhetorical device in the novel, for the ...