Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture [electronic resource] : Representational Tensions /
Rintoul, Suzanne.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Struggle to Represent Intimate Violence against Women; Part I Intimate Violence and Understandings of 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 in 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 Towers6 Marital Cruelty in The History of Mary Prince; Conclusion: The Limits of Oppositionality through Victorian Representations of Intimate Violence; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Literature, Modern—19th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Social history.
Fiction.
Literary History.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Social History.