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Novel (2021) 54 (1): 65–84.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and remedy is an allegory of common law justice for victims of sexual violence: it tends to treat their complaints as malevolent prosecutions, directing legal scrutiny toward the victims of sexual violence rather than toward its perpetrators. Richardson's political critique of the legal system engenders...
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Novel (2014) 47 (3): 461–464.
Published: 01 November 2014
... people were doomed to generational enslavement precisely for the historical crimes of incest and homosexuality Their ‘‘unrestrained sexuality’’ was believed to range beyond ‘‘promis- cuous heterosexuality’’ to include ‘‘sexual violence, interracial wanting, bestiality...
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Novel (2014) 47 (2): 330–333.
Published: 01 August 2014
... for interracial desire untainted by violence’’ (34). Graham illustrates the political uses to which these narratives were put in a number of Boer War texts, where the loudly proclaimed vulnerability of white women to black sexual depredation was used as a pretext to justify the internment of Boer women...
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Novel (2000) 33 (3): 415–418.
Published: 01 November 2000
... southern women writers-representations inevitably and perhaps irretrievably mired in the dirtiness of southern racial and sexual violence-4aeger can disrupt the southern literary tradition and its claims to an epic history. Yaeger offers her readers both a revealing account of historical...
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Novel (2010) 43 (1): 53–59.
Published: 01 May 2010
... the initial debates about patriarchy between Locke and Robert Filmer and that Freud makes it visible. What my story here makes visible is that the theoretical narrative linking private marital relations and public political relations through lurid accounts of sexual violence emerges in the 1860s...
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Novel (2018) 51 (1): 127–131.
Published: 01 May 2018
...), but there are ambiguities here, too: sometimes we are told that novelists privileged masochism because marriage was perceived to be on the side of sadism, institutionalizing sexual violence. Moreover, if erotic delay offers writers a way to critique or disrupt the marriage plot, Jarvis blurs the issue by telling us...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 125–128.
Published: 01 May 1999
... for masculine protection against: the racial other. Thus the geographic displacement serves two purposes: it racializes and remasculinizes REVIEW / SEXUAL VIOLENCE, COLONIAL FICTIONS both empire and the internal domestic order of England. Yet Paxton points out a central ab- sence...
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Novel (2006) 39 (3): 443.
Published: 01 November 2006
... in part-in the particular features of particular characters, which may well include the narrative situations in which they first came to life. After all, Robinson Crusoe may leave, but he can never exist outside his "desert island." Pamela can never be torn from her libertine master's sexual...
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Novel (2010) 43 (2): 251–270.
Published: 01 August 2010
... against his will in Count Dracula’s castle, where he is the object of terrifying threats and macabre erotic approaches. Jonathan’s breath- less accounts of the supernatural horrors and sexual violence he encounters there are stopped short when the narrative suddenly cuts back to England to give us...
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Novel (2023) 56 (1): 151–156.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in the Anglosphere. Ania Loomba has argued that one must consider “the violence of Gandhi's non-violence” and places her critique precisely through the erasure of women in the development of satyagraha. For instance, Gandhi's “grotesque” advice to women in the face of sexual violence is to “cultivate courage...
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Novel (2007) 40 (1-2): 77–103.
Published: 01 August 2007
... to love alone. (137-39) What is detailed in this letter, then, is the secret that lies between the sisters-what Mary "never knewu-about the level of physical, psychological, and sexual violence contained within the marriage between Clara and St. Louis. This language suggests that what...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 26–49.
Published: 01 May 2013
... already educated imagination. In the scene of attempted rape, Pamela mentions the myth of Lucretia, and he responds: “[Y]ou are well read, I see” (32). What is relevant here is that he too is well read, that he can also recognize in classical writing the secret springs of his own sexual violence...
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Novel (2013) 46 (1): 93–115.
Published: 01 May 2013
... – 45 . <doi:10.1093/eic/XXXI.4.328> . Purdy Richard Little Millgate Michael , eds. The Collected Letters of Thomas Hardy . 7 vols . Oxford : Clarendon , 1978 . Rooney Ellen . “‘A Little More than Persuading’: Tess and the Subject of Sexual Violence.” Rape...
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Novel (2016) 49 (2): 278–294.
Published: 01 August 2016
... characteristic of postcolonial fiction: such tropes of splitting as twins and half-suns; images of a stunted futurity represented by the failure to conceive children; images of sexual violence; and an ending marked by ambivalence rather than resolution. The novel's style is characteristically postcolonial...
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Novel (1999) 33 (1): 134–137.
Published: 01 May 1999
... Lamos makes conformity legible in the shift from sexual ambiguity to com- pulsory heterosexuality and the policing of identity, Mahaffey berates conformity more generally for the violence that necessarily accompanies any consolidation of meaning, be it national, aesthetic, or sexual. Rather than...
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Novel (2004) 37 (1-2): 181–199.
Published: 01 August 2004
...- corded to male sexuality precisely at the moment when it transgressed the boundaries of proper masculinity by manifesting blatant violence against women. Indeed, even the attempts to rqresenf these transgressions themselves induced yet another important boundary violation...
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Novel (2000) 33 (2): 196–211.
Published: 01 August 2000
... strategy for removing social violence from the sexual scene. It is a limited and controlled enactment of violence, aimed at escaping the punitive and disciplina y function-the subjectivizing function- which our culture attaches to violence. This is the case even when the masochistic...
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Novel (2000) 34 (1): 77–97.
Published: 01 May 2000
... female participation in intellectual life.16 Along with the threat of sexual violence, such sources of anxiety not only motivate narrative resolutions in the form of separation of mind and body.17As I show in the next three sections, these anxieties give rise to the claim that a male intellectual...
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Novel (2015) 48 (3): 381–399.
Published: 01 November 2015
... economic dispossession: property law's gendered exclusions also minimize women's legal subjectivity, underwrite their social subjugation, and authorize myriad daily aggressions. The God of Small Things reconnects the twins' jointness through the sexual intimacy they share after returning to Ayemenem...
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Novel (2021) 54 (2): 270–286.
Published: 01 August 2021
... on the novel's deployment of emotion. One of the most frequently remarked features of Wuthering Heights must be what Gilbert and Gubar have called its “general air of sour hatred” ( 260 ). Generations of readers have been confronted with excessive levels of violence when reading Wuthering Heights...