Suzanne Rintoul

Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture (eBook, PDF)

Representational Tensions

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Suzanne Rintoul identifies an important contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to expose and to obscure brutality towards women in intimate relationships. Through case studies and literary analysis, this book illustrates how intimate violence was both spectacular and unspeakable in the Victorian period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137491121
• Artikelnr.: 43589149

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Rintoul is a Professor in the School of Language and Communications Studies at Conestoga College, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Struggle To Represent Intimate Violence Against Women PART I: INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOCIAL CLASS 1. Sensational Crime Street Literature, 1817-1880 2. Oliver Twist , Journalistic Discourse, and the Working-Class Body PART II: INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND AUTHORSHIP 3. Unfixing Identity and Resisting Violence: Caroline Norton's Pamphlets and Fiction 4. Sensational Sympathy in The Woman in White PART III: INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY 5. Scrutinizing the Disabled Body in Barchester Towers 6. Marital Cruelty in The History of Mary Prince Conclusion: The Limits of Oppositionality Through Victorian Representations of Intimate Violence