Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian FictionThe Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction traces novelists’ engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century. |
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... Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Lifi Figure 5.1. “The New Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, Westminster Hall,” 1858 Figure 5.2. Illustration for “Divorce A Vinculo,” 1860 Figure 5.3. “The Case according to the Petitioner's statement ...
... Eliot. Quarterly Review 108 (1860): 469—99. Charles Dickens. Sketches hy 302 and Other Early Papers, 1833—39. Vol. 1, The Dent Uniform Edition ofDickens'fizurnalisrn, ed. Michael Slater. London: J. M. Dent, 1994. Originally published ...
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Contents
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Domestic Violence and MiddleClass Manliness Dombey and Son | 44 |
From Regency Violence to Victorian Feminism The Tenant of Wildfell Hall | 72 |
The Abused Woman and the Community Janets Repentance | 103 |
Strange Revelations The Divorce Court the Newspaper and The Woman in White | 132 |
The Private Eye and the Public Gaze He Knew He Was Right | 165 |