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“A Hideous Torture on Himself”: Madness and Self-Mutilation in Victorian Literature
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 literary text held a high status in Victorian psychology. In exploring Dimmesd...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Springer US
2011
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3405242/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21837447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-011-9152-6 |