Alexandra Gray is a Sessional Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of academic essays on the late-Victorian-and-Edwardian woman writer Lucas Malet, and the author of forthcoming articles and essays on the New Woman, nineteenth-century medical history and the female orphan figure in Victorian fiction.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Saintly Self-Harm: The Victorian Religious Context2. Beyond the Fleshly Veil: Self-Starvation in the New Woman Novel3. Deconstructing the Drunkard’s Path: Drunken Bodies in New Woman Fiction4. Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle Conclusion Works Cited

Alexandra Gray's fascinating study is a welcome investigation of the paradoxical link between radical feminist thought and physical self-harm in fin-de-siècle writing. Ranging widely over imaginative and scientific sources, it provides an invaluable contribution to our understanding of that perennially interesting and richly rewarding Victorian figure, the New Woman.

Alexandra Gray is a Sessional Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of academic essays on the late-Victorian-and-Edwardian woman writer Lucas Malet, and the author of forthcoming articles and essays on the New Woman, nineteenth-century medical history and the female orphan figure in Victorian fiction.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Saintly Self-Harm: The Victorian Religious Context2. Beyond the Fleshly Veil: Self-Starvation in the New Woman Novel3. Deconstructing the Drunkard’s Path: Drunken Bodies in New Woman Fiction4. Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle Conclusion Works Cited

Alexandra Gray's fascinating study is a welcome investigation of the paradoxical link between radical feminist thought and physical self-harm in fin-de-siècle writing. Ranging widely over imaginative and scientific sources, it provides an invaluable contribution to our understanding of that perennially interesting and richly rewarding Victorian figure, the New Woman.

Alexandra Gray is a Sessional Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. She is the co-editor of a forthcoming collection of academic essays on the late-Victorian-and-Edwardian woman writer Lucas Malet, and the author of forthcoming articles and essays on the New Woman, nineteenth-century medical history and the female orphan figure in Victorian fiction.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Saintly Self-Harm: The Victorian Religious Context2. Beyond the Fleshly Veil: Self-Starvation in the New Woman Novel3. Deconstructing the Drunkard’s Path: Drunken Bodies in New Woman Fiction4. Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle Conclusion Works Cited

Alexandra Gray's fascinating study is a welcome investigation of the paradoxical link between radical feminist thought and physical self-harm in fin-de-siècle writing. Ranging widely over imaginative and scientific sources, it provides an invaluable contribution to our understanding of that perennially interesting and richly rewarding Victorian figure, the New Woman.