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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Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge. ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 0.1. Sidney Paget, “I Am the Wife of Sir ... Cruelty,” 1750—51 Figure 3.2. William Hogarth, “Cruelty in Perfection,” 1750—51 Figure 3.3. “A pair of black eyes ...
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge. that our laws, in this regard, had either been enacted by a ... cruelty, and the commu- nity's role in regulating domestic violence. This book examines Victorian novelists' engagement ...
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge. working-class spousal violence thus became part of middle-class ... cruelty entered the public eye in unprecedented ways), and culminate in the fin de siècle, when late-Victorian ...
... marital violence—that is, assault, cruelty, and rape—but at times will examine as well how Victorian texts linked violence toward animals or children with violence against married women. In considering the relationship between legal ...
... marital violence. Finally, A. James Hammerton melds social and legal history in his article “Victorian Marriage and the Law of Matrimonial Cruelty,” arguing that marital cruelty cases provide important evidence of shifting views on marriage ...
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 |