The marked body : domestic violence in mid-nineteenth-century literature /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lawson, Kate, 1958-
Other Authors: Shakinovsky, Lynn, 1955-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Subjects:
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, > 1806-1861. > Aurora Leigh.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, > 1804-1864. > Birthmark.
Aurora Leigh (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett)
Birthmark (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Family violence in literature.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Human body in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Violence familiale dans la littérature.
Roman familial anglais > Histoire et critique.
Corps humain dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Domestic fiction, English
English fiction
Family violence in literature
Human body in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "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.

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