{"product_id":"9780791488621","title":"The Marked Body: Domestic Violence in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Literature","description":"The 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.","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127693394160,"sku":"9780791488621","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780791488621_p0.jpg?v=1763663108","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780791488621","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}