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. Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 WWW.0hi0.edu/0upress © 2005 by Ohio University Press Printed in the United States of America All rights reserved Ohio University Press books ...
... Violence in the Public Eye: The Early Writings of Charles Dickens . Domestic Violence and Middle-Class ... Marital Violence and the New Woman: The Wing ofAzrael . “Are Women Protected?” Sherlock Holmes and the Violent ...
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. I would like to thank the University of Victoria for research leaves in and , and for grant money for research assistance. My thanks go especially to ...
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge. Figure . . Sidney Paget, “I Am the Wife of Sir Eustace Brackenstall,” illustration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange,” Strand Magazine ( ).ing ...
Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction Lisa Surridge. When I first started thinking about Victorians and marital violence, I was writing a footnote to an article on an entirely different subject. Like Holmes, I had a train to catch ...
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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 |