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Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture

Representational Tensions

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  • © 2015

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  1. Suzanne Rintoul
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The Struggle to Represent Intimate Violence against Women

    1. Introduction: The Struggle to Represent Intimate Violence against Women

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 1-19

  3. Intimate Violence and Understandings of Class

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Sensational Crime Street Literature, 1817–1880

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 23-40

    3. Oliver Twist, Journalistic Discourse, and the Working-Class Body

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 41-58

  4. Intimate Violence and Authorship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Unfixing Identity and Resisting Violence in Caroline Norton’s Pamphlets and Fiction

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 61-93

    3. Sensational Sympathy in The Woman in White

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 95-116

  5. Intimate Violence and Institutional Authority

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. Scrutinizing the Disabled Body in Barchester Towers

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 119-135

    3. Marital Cruelty in The History of Mary Prince

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 137-152

  6. Conclusion: The Limits of Oppositionality through Victorian Representations of Intimate Violence

    1. Conclusion: The Limits of Oppositionality through Victorian Representations of Intimate Violence

      • Suzanne Rintoul
      Pages 153-160

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 161-189
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About this book

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.

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“Suzanne Rintoul's Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture is an insightful, diverse, and serious study of nineteenth-century depiction of battered women. … While Rintoul makes substantial claims about how violence against women was represented, she provides evidence through a thoughtfully curated selection of texts, allowing her relatively brief 160-page study to be surprisingly diverse. … The author provides occasional detailed descriptions of abuse and graphic illustrations, but only when there is a true need.” (Sara Melton, Victorians Institute Journal, Vol. 43, 2015)

About the author

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

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