The ambiguities and paradoxes of domestic violence were amplified in Victorian culture, which emphasized the home as a woman’s place of security. In The Marked Body, Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky examine the discarded and violated bodies of middle-class women in selected texts of mid-nineteenth-century fiction and poetry. Guided by observations from feminism, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory, they argue that, in these works, domestic violence is a crucible in which the female body is placed, where it becomes marked by scars and disfigurement. Yet, they contend, these wounds go beyond violence to bring these women to a broader state of female subjectivity, sexuality, and consciousness. The female body, already the site of alterity, is inscribed with something that cannot be expressed; it thus becomes that which is culturally and physically denied, the place which is not.
Innehållsförteckning
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION
1 ’A FRIGHTFUL OBJECT’
Romance, Obsession, and Death in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ’The Birth-Mark’
2 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABJECTION, AND THE COMIC NOVEL
Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers
3 VIOLENCE, CAUSALITY, AND THE ’SHOCK OF HISTORY’
George Eliot’s ’Janet’s Repentance’
4 ’THE SINS OF THE FATHER’ AND ’THE FEMALE LINE’
Phantom Visitations and Cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ’The Poor Clare’
5 RAPE, TRANSGRESSION, AND THE LAW
The Body of Marian Erle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh
6 ’WILL SHE END LIKE ME?’
Violence and the Uncanny in Wilkie Collins’s Man and Wife
CONCLUSION
NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX
Om författaren
Kate Lawson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern British Columbia.Lynn Shakinovsky is Associate Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University.
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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 212 ● ISBN 9780791488621 ● Filstorlek 1.3 MB ● Utgivare State University of New York Press ● Publicerad 2012 ● Nedladdningsbara 24 månader ● Valuta EUR ● ID 7665325 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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