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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... Sherlock Holmes and the Violent Home Notes Bibliography Index v You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or distributing of this ...
... Sherlock Holmes. The complete facsimile edition. Chatham, UK: Wordsworth, 1998. Originally published 1887—1927. Anon. “The State of the Law Courts. IV. The Criminal Courts.” Strand Magazine 2 (1891): 84—92. C. P. Sanger. “The Structure ...
... Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called to investigate a murder in an upper-class home. Sir Eustace Brackenstall lies dead in his dining room, felled by a blow from his own poker. Lady Brackenstall, also injured, has a “terrible mark ...
... Sherlock Holmes in the context of late-Victorian feminism and the great marriage debate in the Daily Telegraph, the book's two final chapters illustrate how fin-de-siècle fiction brought male sexual violence and the viability of ...
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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 |