Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture

Suzanne Rintoul is a Professor in the School of Language and Communications Studies at Conestoga College, Canada.

Introduction: The Struggle To Represent Intimate Violence Against Women PART I: INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND UNDERSTANDINGS OF SOCIAL CLASS 1. Sensational Crime Street Literature, 1817-1880 2. Oliver Twist , Journalistic Discourse, and the Working-Class Body PART II: INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND AUTHORSHIP 3. Unfixing Identity and Resisting Violence: Caroline Norton's Pamphlets and Fiction 4. Sensational Sympathy in The Woman in White PART III: INTIMATE VIOLENCE AND INSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY 5. Scrutinizing the Disabled Body in Barchester Towers 6. Marital Cruelty in The History of Mary Prince Conclusion: The Limits of Oppositionality Through Victorian Representations of Intimate Violence