The marked body : domestic violence in mid-nineteenth-century literature / Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawson, Kate, 1958-

Contributor:

Shakinovsky, Lynn, 1955-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Family violence in literature.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Aurora Leigh.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett.

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Birthmark.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel.

Human body in literature.

Physical Description:

viii, 204 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]

Contents:

1 "A frightful object" Romance, Obsession, and Death in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark" 23

2 Domestic Violence, Abjection, and the Comic Novel: Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers 41

3 Violence, Causality, and the "Shock of History" George Eliot's "Janet's Repentance" 61

4 "The Sins of the Father" and "The Female Line" Phantom Visitations and Cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Poor Clare" 85

5 Rape, Transgression, and the Law: The Body of Marian Erle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh 105

6 "Will she end like Me?" Violence and the Uncanny in Wilkie Collins's Man and Wife 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.

ISBN:

0791453766

0791453758

OCLC:

49320463