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Author Lawson, Kate, 1958-

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

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2002]
©2002

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 204 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.
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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Subject Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Aurora Leigh.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Birthmark.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Aurora Leigh.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Birthmark.
Aurora Leigh (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett)
Birthmark (Hawthorne, Nathaniel)
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English fiction.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Family violence in literature.
Family violence in literature.
Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.
Domestic fiction, English.
Human body in literature.
Human body in literature.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Shakinovsky, Lynn, 1955-
Other Form: Print version: Lawson, Kate, 1958- Marked body. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002 0791453766 0791453758 (DLC) 2002021056 (OCoLC)49320463
ISBN 0585478775 (electronic book)
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0791453766 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
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9780791488621
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