{"product_id":"the-marked-body-kate-lawson-9780791453766","title":"The Marked Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDiscusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe ambiguities and paradoxes of domestic violence were amplified in Victorian culture, which emphasized the home as a woman's place of security. In The Marked Body, Kate Lawson and Lynn Shakinovsky examine the discarded and violated bodies of middle-class women in selected texts of mid-nineteenth-century fiction and poetry. Guided by observations from feminism, psychoanalysis, and trauma theory, they argue that, in these works, domestic violence is a crucible in which the female body is placed, where it becomes marked by scars and disfigurement. Yet, they contend, these wounds go beyond violence to bring these women to a broader state of female subjectivity, sexuality, and consciousness. The female body, already the site of alterity, is inscribed with something that cannot be expressed; it thus becomes that which is culturally and physically denied, the place which is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Lawson,Lynn Shakinovsky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0791453766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791453766\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.06w x 0.48d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2003 pg. 985","brand":"Kate Lawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096725987583,"sku":"9780791453766","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-marked-body-kate-lawson-9780791453766","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}