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This essay discusses the depiction of health, sickness, and insanity in the works of the queer Victorian poet, anatomist, and revolutionary activist Thomas Lovell Beddoes, who died by suicide in 1849. Examining the fragmentary Gothic dramas left undestroyed by Beddoes at the time of his death, it explores how his works offer a critique of the hegemonic psychiatric cultures of his day.

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This page is a summary of: “This my hostile body”: Therapy and Mental Pathology in the Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, November 2025, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004745247_008.
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