Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture

Representational Tensions

• Author(s): Suzanne Rintoul,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 189
• ISBN_10: 1137491124
  ISBN_13: 9781137491121
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / Modern / 19th Century , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , History / Social History , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.