附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-193) and index.
"A frightful object": romance, obsession, and death in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The birth-mark" -- Domestic violence, abjection, and the comic novel: Anthony Trollope's Barchester towers -- Violence, causality, and the "shock of history": George Eliot's "Janet's repentance" -- "The sins of the father" and "the female line": phantom visitations and cruelty in Elizabeth Gaskell's "The poor Clare" -- Rape, transgression, and the law: the body of Marian Erle in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh -- "Will she end like me?": violence and the uncanny in Wilkie Collin's Man and wife.
