Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture: Representational Tensions

Rintoul, Suzanne

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-07-09

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137493262

DOI: 10.1057/9781137491121

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 189