Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture Representational Tensi
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 illu
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Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture Representational Tensions Suzanne Rintoul
Palgrave
macmillan
INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND VICTORIAN PRINT CULTURE
Copyright © Suzanne Rintoul, 2015. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-49326-2 All rights reserved. Versions of some sections have been published in the following journals: Chapter 1; Conclusion: “Intimate Violence and the Tenuous Boundaries of Class in Victorian Street Literature.” Victorians Institute Journal. 36 (2008): 79–102. Chapter 3: “Botanical Language and Discursive Subject Production in Caroline Norton’s Woman’s Reward.” Women Writers. 19.4 (2012): 451–466. Chapter 4: “ ‘The Mysterious Woman and Her Legs’: Partially Visible Violence and the Public Gaze in Barchester Towers.” Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies. 7.1 (2011): n. pag. Web. Chapter 6: “ ‘My Poor Mistress’: Domestic Violence in The History of Mary Prince.” English Studies in Canada. 37.3–4 (2012): 41–60. “Murder in the Borough,” “The Sussex Tragedy,” and “The Body of Hannah Brown, Mangled by Greenacre, Her Intended Husband” are printed here with permission from the British Library. “Murder in the Borough” image provided courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk Thanks to the publishers and to the British Library for permission to reprint. First published in 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States—a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-69701-4 DOI 10.1057/9781137491121
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rintoul, Suzanne, 1979– Intimate violence and Victorian print culture : representational tensions / Suzanne Rintoul. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. English literature—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Women in literature. 3. Violence in literature. 4. Mass media and women—Great Britain. 5. Women—Violence against—Great Britain. 6. Mass media— Great Britain—History—19th century. I. Title. PR468.W6R45 2015 820.9⬘928709034—dc23
2015000271
A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: July 2015 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: The Struggle to Represent Intimate Violence against Women
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Part I Intimate Violence and Understandings of Class 1 Sensational Crime Street Literature, 1817–1880 2
Oliver Twist, Journ
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