{"product_id":"marked-body","title":"Marked Body","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","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54410685186392,"sku":"9780791453766","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780791453766.jpg?v=1777897863","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/marked-body","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}