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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... Wives as Pets in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Domestic Violence,” Victorian Review ( ): – , and in “Domestic Violence, Female Self-Mutilation, and the Healing of the Male in Dombey and Son,” Victorians Institute ...
... wives. “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange,” then, is quintessentially a text about reading narratives and signs ofmarital violence. With its multiple stories, multiple tellers (Lady Brackenstall, the maid, the sailor, the local police) ...
... wives. This act was instituted by Robert Peel as part of his legal reforms, and was part of a general trend toward higher sentences for crimes against the person.3 Drafted in part because of popular concern about “disputes between man ...
... wives.6This shift toward the prosecution of minor as- saults was in turn supported by Peel's establishment of the London police You are reading copyrighted material published by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Unauthorized posting ...
... wives and sexual partners, including the infamous “Red Barn Murder” of May , in which William Corder killed his lover, Maria Marten, and buried her body in a shallow grave in the floor of the barn (Times, August , f ...
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 |