Author: Chloe Wilcox

Alanna Skuse, Hurt Feelings: Wounding Oneself in Early Modern Literature (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)246 pp. Open access eBook. ISBN: 978-3-032-04565-2. £44.99 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-032-04564-5 Hurt Feelings is an exploration of the range of functions to which self-wounding could be put in early modern literature. Alanna Skuse analyses five categories of function: persuasion (chapter 2), protest…