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Explaining the depiction of violence against women in victorian literature : applying Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to Dickens, Brontë, and Braddon

Title
Explaining the depiction of violence against women in victorian literature : applying Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection to Dickens, Brontë, and Braddon / Karen E. Tatum.
Author
Tatum, Karen E. (Karen Elizabeth)
Publication
Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, [2005], ©2005.

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ii, 199 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Studies in British literature ; v. 100
Uniform Title
Studies in British literature ; v. 100.
Subject
  • Braddon, M. E. 1835-1915
  • Braddon, M. E. 1835-1915 > Women
  • Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
  • Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
  • English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  • Women in literature
  • Victims of crimes in literature
  • Abused women in literature
  • Violence in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-181) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Hollowing out abjection -- Ch. 2. "Something covered with an old blanket" : Nancy and other dead mothers in Oliver Twist -- Ch. 3. The domestication of violence in Jane Eyre -- Ch. 4. Bearing her secret : Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Aurora Floyd -- Ch. 5. Lady Audley's secret : the angel in the house is "dangerous!" -- Conclusion : hollowing out abjection through the crisis of the word.
ISBN
0773459898
LCCN
2005054023
OCLC
  • OCM61362262
  • SCSB-5226448
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries