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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... Manliness: Dombey and Son . From Regency Violence to Victorian Feminism: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall . The Abused Woman and the Community: “Janet's Repentance” . Strange Revelations: The Divorce Court, the ...
... manliness, and women's rights. Did the husband control his wife's body? Her behavior? How should this authority be exercised? Was manliness compatible with violence? At what point did the wife's rights as a person overrule the husband's ...
... manliness and “a blot” on the “national character” ( Parl. Deb. s., col. ). This book focuses specifically on marital violence—that is, assault, cruelty, and rape—but at times will examine as well how Victorian texts ...
... manliness in the late s and early s. Chapter reads “Janet's Repentance” in light of the parliamentary debates on the Divorce Act. The opening of the divorce court in January made middle-class marital ...
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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 |