000 05682nam a22006855i 4500
001 978-3-032-04565-2
003 DE-He213
005 20260304124511.0
007 cr nn 008mamaa
008 251201s2026 sz | s |||| 0|eng d
020 _a9783032045652
_9978-3-032-04565-2
024 7 _a10.1007/978-3-032-04565-2
_2doi
050 4 _aPN715-749
072 7 _aDSB
_2bicssc
072 7 _aLIT024000
_2bisacsh
072 7 _aDSB
_2thema
082 0 4 _a809.03
_223
100 1 _aSkuse, Alanna.
_eauthor.
_4aut
_4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
_923804
245 1 0 _aHurt Feelings
_h[electronic resource] :
_bWounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature /
_cby Alanna Skuse.
250 _a1st ed. 2026.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer Nature Switzerland :
_bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
_c2026.
300 _aXII, 246 p. 1 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
341 0 _bPDF/UA-1
_2onix
341 0 _bTable of contents navigation
_2onix
341 0 _bSingle logical reading order
_2onix
341 0 _bShort alternative textual descriptions
_2onix
341 0 _bUse of color is not sole means of conveying information
_2onix
341 0 _bUse of high contrast between text and background color
_2onix
341 0 _bNext / Previous structural navigation
_2onix
341 0 _bAll non-decorative content supports reading without sight
_2onix
347 _atext file
_bPDF
_2rda
490 1 _aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
_x2634-6443
505 0 _a1 Introduction -- 2. Persuasion: Self-Wounding as 'strong proof' in Julius Caesar and Tamburlaine the Great.-3. Protest: Autoglossotomy and Biopolitics in The Spanish Tragedy -- 4. Violent Lament in The Faerie Queen and Various Plays and Poems by Shakespeare -- 5. Self-Wounding in Medical and Historical Texts -- 6. Self-Determination and Self-Annihilation -- 7. Early Modern Narratives and the Present Day.
506 0 _aOpen Access
520 _aThis 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. Alanna Skuse is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of two monographs, Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England, 1580-1720 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England (CUP, 2021), as well as articles on various aspects of early modern embodiment. She also leads public history projects and writes for the popular history press, including her debut trade book The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to stay alive in Renaissance England (OneWorld, 2025).
532 8 _aAccessibility summary: This PDF has been created in accordance with the PDF/UA-1 standard to enhance accessibility, including screen reader support, described non-text content (images, graphs), bookmarks for easy navigation, keyboard-friendly links and forms and searchable, selectable text. We recognize the importance of accessibility, and we welcome queries about accessibility for any of our products. If you have a question or an access need, please get in touch with us at accessibilitysupport@springernature.com. Please note that a more accessible version of this eBook is available as ePub.
532 8 _aNo reading system accessibility options actively disabled
532 8 _aPublisher contact for further accessibility information: accessibilitysupport@springernature.com
650 0 _aEuropean literature
_xRenaissance, 1450-1600.
_918897
650 0 _aMedicine and the humanities.
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
650 1 4 _aEarly Modern and Renaissance Literature.
_918898
650 2 4 _aMedical Humanities.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Science.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer Nature eBook
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783032045645
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783032045669
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
_z9783032045676
830 0 _aPalgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine,
_x2634-6443
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-04565-2
912 _aZDB-2-LCM
912 _aZDB-2-SXL
912 _aZDB-2-SOB
999 _c579874
_d579874