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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... Oliver Twist, 1837—39 Figure 2.1. Illustration for “Panel for the Protection of Ladies,” 1853 Figure 2.2. “Useful Sunday Literature for the Masses; or, Murder Made Familiar,” 1849 Figure 2.3. Hablot K. Browne, “Mr. Carker in his hour of ...
... Oliver Twist. Ed. Peter Fairclough. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1978. Originally published 1837—39. J. W Kaye. “Outrages on Women.” North British Review 25 (1856): 233—56. Mona Caird. “Punishment for Crimes against Women and Children ...
... Oliver Twist.1 The Punch cartoon of 1848, published in a period ofprotest concerning inadequate penalties for wife assault, suggests the extent to which the figures of Sikes and Nancy became a kind of shorthand for wife beater and ...
... Oliver Twist so powerful to its original readers of the late s. I will suggest that the figure of Nancy, as ... Oliver Twistlooks back to tales of family violence in The New- gate Calendar.3 I want to suggest a more immediate ...
... Oliver Twist (February 1837—April 1839), The Old Curiosity Shop (1840—41), and The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843—44). Moreover, these abused women take on more and more important roles: they are incidental in Dickens's ...
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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 |