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Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: Representational Tensions
Suzanne Rintoul
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Description for Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: Representational Tensions
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; DSBF; JFFE3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 146 x 224 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
189
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137493262
SKU
V9781137493262
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Ref
99-15
About Suzanne Rintoul
Suzanne Rintoul is a Professor in the School of Language and Communications Studies at Conestoga College, Canada.
Reviews for Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: Representational Tensions
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 ... Read more