Hurt Feelings
This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts and histories from the 1580s to the turn of the eighteenth century. In this period, it argues,...
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| description | This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts and histories from the 1580s to the turn of the eighteenth century. In this period, it argues, self-injury was not necessarily viewed as indicative of psychological distress, as it is in modern discourses of ‘self-harm’. Rather, self-wounding might work as a form of protest, a persuasive tactic, a means of self-regulation or an assertion of agency over one’s own body. This book blends traditional literary studies methodologies with insights from sociology, emotion studies, cognitive psychology and practice-led research to shed new light on early modern ideas about rhetoric, authenticity, emotion, and the relationship between body and identity. The book also confronts the difficulties of examining such ‘topical’ phenomena. Can the anachronism of comparisons between modern and historical self-injury be made productive, rather than reductive? What does it mean to talk about ‘self-injury’ in a period which did not have a distinct word for these practices? In so doing, it suggests new directions for literary-historical studies of the body and its practices, arguing that in such cases, we should seek not to familiarise the past but to defamiliarize the present. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1704462025-12-22T05:18:26Z Hurt Feelings Skuse, Alanna Self-injury Ballads Plays Medical texts Literature, Science and Medicine Studies Mad studies Emotion studies Authenticity Literature and Disability Studies Open Access thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PD Science: general issues::PDX History of science This open access book offers the first full study of the phenomenon of self-wounding as it is represented in early modern literature. It looks at depictions of self-injury in ballads, plays, medical texts and histories from the 1580s to the turn of the eighteenth century. In this period, it argues, self-injury was not necessarily viewed as indicative of psychological distress, as it is in modern discourses of ‘self-harm’. Rather, self-wounding might work as a form of protest, a persuasive tactic, a means of self-regulation or an assertion of agency over one’s own body. This book blends traditional literary studies methodologies with insights from sociology, emotion studies, cognitive psychology and practice-led research to shed new light on early modern ideas about rhetoric, authenticity, emotion, and the relationship between body and identity. The book also confronts the difficulties of examining such ‘topical’ phenomena. Can the anachronism of comparisons between modern and historical self-injury be made productive, rather than reductive? What does it mean to talk about ‘self-injury’ in a period which did not have a distinct word for these practices? In so doing, it suggests new directions for literary-historical studies of the body and its practices, arguing that in such cases, we should seek not to familiarise the past but to defamiliarize the present. 2025-12-22T05:18:25Z 2025-12-22T05:18:25Z 2025-12-18T09:15:57Z 2026 book ONIX_20251218T100927_9783032045652_41 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/109314 9783032045652 9783032045645 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/170446 eng Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine; Literature, Cultural and Media Studies; Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0) open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/109314/1/9783032045652.pdf Springer Nature Palgrave Macmillan 10.1007/978-3-032-04565-2 10.1007/978-3-032-04565-2 9fa3421d-f917-4153-b9ab-fc337c396b5a f6fcd900-36e2-4bc9-939e-ad820802e21f d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9783032045652 9783032045645 Palgrave Macmillan 246 Cham [...] Wellcome Trust Wellcome 10.13039/100010269 open access |
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