Introduction, 1. Saintly Self-Harm: The Victorian Religious Context; 2. Beyond the Fleshly Veil: Self-Starvation in the New Woman Novel; 3. Deconstructing the Drunkard’s Path: Drunken Bodies in New Woman Fiction; 4. Damaging the Body Politic: Self-Mutilation as Spectacle; Conclusion; Works Cited.