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  • "A frightful object": romance, obsession, and death in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The birth-mark"
  • Domestic violence, abjection, and the comic novel: Anthony Trollope's Barchester towers
  • Violence, causality, and the "shock of history": George Eliot's "Janet's repentance"
  • "The sins of the father" and "the female line": phantom visitations and cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell's "The poor Clare"
  • Rape, transgression, and the law: the body of Marian Erle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
  • "Will she end like me?": violence and the uncanny in Wilkie Collin's Man and wife.