Download or read book Intimate Violence and Victorian Print Culture written by Suzanne Rintoul and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzanne Rintoul identifies an important contradiction in Victorian representations of abuse: the simultaneous compulsion to expose and to obscure brutality towards women in intimate relationships. Through case studies and literary analysis, this book illustrates how intimate violence was both spectacular and unspeakable in the Victorian period.