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.
• Family violence in literature.
• Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.
• Human body in literature.
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Aurora Leigh.
• Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Birthmark.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (213 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.

Contents:

• Intro
• THE MARKED BODY
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. "A Frightful Object:" Romance, Obsession, and Death in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark"
• 2. Domestic Violence, Abjection, and the Comic Novel: Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers
• 3. Violence, Causality, and the "Shock of History:" George Eliot's "Janet's Repentance"
• 4. "The Sins of the Father" and "The Female Line:" Phantom Visitations and Cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Poor Clare"
• 5. Rape, Transgression, and the Law: The Body of Marian Erle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
• 6. "Will She End Like Me?:" Violence and the Uncanny in Wilkie Collins's Man and Wife
• Conclusion
• Notes
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1. "A FRIGHTFUL OBJECT"
• CHAPTER 2. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABJECTION, AND THE COMIC NOVEL
• CHAPTER 3. VIOLENCE, CAUSALITY, AND THE "SHOCK OF HISTORY"
• CHAPTER 4. "THE SINS OF THE FATHER" AND "THE FEMALE LINE"
• CHAPTER 5. RAPE, TRANSGRESSION, AND THE LAW
• CHAPTER 6. "WILL SHE END LIKE ME?"
• CONCLUSION
• Works Cited
• Index
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z.

Notes:

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index.

ISBN:

• 9780791488621
• 0791488624
• 9780585478777
• 0585478775

OCLC:

61367561