Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature
暫譯: 受傷的感情：早期現代文學中的自我傷害
Skuse, Alanna
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2025-12-01
- 售價: $2,620
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $2,489
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 246
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 3032045649
- ISBN-13: 9783032045645
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商品描述
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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本開放存取的書籍提供了對自我傷害現象的首次全面研究，該現象在早期現代文學中有所表現。它探討了從1580年代到18世紀初的民謠、戲劇、醫學文本和歷史中對自我傷害的描繪。在這一時期，書中主張，自我傷害並不一定被視為心理困擾的指標，這與現代對「自我傷害」的論述不同。相反，自我傷害可能作為一種抗議形式、一種說服策略、一種自我調節的手段，或是對自己身體的主權主張。這本書將傳統文學研究方法與社會學、情感研究、認知心理學和實踐導向研究的見解相結合，為早期現代有關修辭、真實性、情感以及身體與身份之間的關係提供了新的視角。該書還面對了檢視這種「當代」現象的困難。現代與歷史自我傷害之間的比較是否能夠產生建設性，而非簡化？在一個沒有明確詞彙來描述這些行為的時期，談論「自我傷害」意味著什麼？在這樣做的過程中，它為身體及其實踐的文學歷史研究提出了新的方向，主張在這些情況下，我們應該尋求的不僅是熟悉過去，而是使當下變得陌生。
作者簡介
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).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
阿蘭娜·斯庫斯（Alanna Skuse）是英國雷丁大學（University of Reading）英國文學的副教授。她是兩部專著的作者，分別是《早期現代英格蘭的癌症建構，1580-1720》（Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England, 1580-1720，Palgrave Macmillan，2015年）和《早期現代英格蘭的外科手術與自我》（Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England，CUP，2021年），以及關於早期現代身體化各個方面的文章。她還主導公共歷史項目，並為流行歷史出版社撰寫文章，包括她的首部商業書籍《外科醫生、助產士與江湖醫生：如何在文藝復興時期的英格蘭生存》（The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to stay alive in Renaissance England，OneWorld，2025年）。
