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Autore: | Lawson Kate <1958-> |
Titolo: | The marked body [[electronic resource] ] : domestic violence in mid-nineteenth-century literature / / Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky |
Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (213 p.) |
Disciplina: | 823/.809355 |
Soggetto topico: | English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Family violence in literature | |
Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism | |
Human body in literature | |
Altri autori: | ShakinovskyLynn <1955-> |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-193) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Discusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The marked body |
ISBN: | 0-7914-8862-4 |
0-585-47877-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808320003321 |
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