ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1 "A FRIGHTFUL OBJECT"
Romance, Obsession, and Death in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Birth-Mark"
2 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, ABJECTION, AND THE COMIC NOVEL
Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers
3 VIOLENCE, CAUSALITY, AND THE "SHOCK OF HISTORY"
George Eliot's "Janet's Repentance"
4 "THE SINS OF THE FATHER" AND "THE FEMALE LINE"
Phantom Visitations and Cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Poor Clare"
5 RAPE, TRANSGRESSION, AND THE LAW
The Body of Marian Erle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
6 "WILL SHE END LIKE ME?"
Violence and the Uncanny in Wilkie Collins's Man and Wife
CONCLUSION
NOTES
WORKS CITED
INDEX