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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... role of the courts in the punishment of the assailant. As such, it foregrounds many of the key themes of this book. You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting, copying, or ...
... role in regulating domestic violence. This book examines Victorian novelists' engagement with the issue of marital violence from to the end of the nineteenth century. My analysis starts in the years following the ...
... role for the liberal subject. In The Novel and the Police, Miller suggests that the novel takes social discipline “out of the streets and into the closet”—that is, “into the private and domestic sphere on which the very identity of the ...
... role in mediating between these two apparently very separate discourses. Court reporting in newspapers, as Shani D'Cruze and Barbara Leckie have shown, provided an important arena in which issues of gender, class, and “private” domestic ...
... role being played by realist fiction and the newspaper in bringing marital violence into the public eye. While I sometimes differ from Tromp, I am always indebted to her insightful and detailed study. This book, then, traces Victorian ...
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 |