| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 204 pages) |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Aurora Leigh.
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-1864. Birthmark.
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| SUBJECT |
Aurora Leigh (Browning, Elizabeth Barrett) fast |
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Birthmark (Hawthorne, Nathaniel) fast |
| Subject |
English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
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Family violence in literature.
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Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Human body in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Domestic fiction, English
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English fiction
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Family violence in literature
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Human body in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shakinovsky, Lynn, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0585478775 |
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9780585478777 |
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0791453766 |
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9780791453766 |
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0791453758 |
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9780791453759 |
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9780791488621 |
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0791488624 |
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