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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... Middle-Class Manliness: Dombey and Son . From Regency Violence to Victorian Feminism: The Tenant of Wildfell ... Home Notes Bibliography Index v You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio ...
... middle-class as- saults received the same level of publicity. When the divorce court opened in January and ... home. Despite this distinction, the act did have a significant effect on middle-class readers. First, and ...
... home enters the public eye. Thus, even as Dickens's texts participate in the ... class women's traditional resistance to violence—their willingness to fight ... middle-class values of domestic privacy and the companionate marriage ...
... home or private relationship is opened up for scrutiny by the medical system, the courts, or—most saliently—the ... class violence. In this early sketch, the middle-class journalist invites the reader to explore the pawnshop through his ...
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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 |