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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
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, [2005], ©2005.
Author
  1. Tatum, Karen E. (Karen Elizabeth)

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Description
  1. ii, 199 pages; 24 cm.
Series statement
  1. Studies in British literature ; v. 100
Uniform title
  1. Studies in British literature ; v. 100.
Subject
  1. Braddon, M. E. 1835-1915
  2. Braddon, M. E. 1835-1915 > Women
  3. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
  4. Brontë, Charlotte, 1816-1855
  5. English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism
  6. Women in literature
  7. Victims of crimes in literature
  8. Abused women in literature
  9. Violence in literature
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-181) and index.