Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction
The 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. Lisa Surridge examines the early works of Charles Dickens and reads Dombey and Son and Anne Brontë''s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the context
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1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations
9780821441992, 082144199X
191953298
Private violence in the public eye: the early writings of Charles Dickens
Domestic violence and middle-class manliness: Dombey and Son
From regency violence to Victorian feminism: The tenant of Wildfell Hall
The abused woman and the community: "Janet's repentance"
Strange revelations: the divorce court, the newspaper, and The woman in white
The private eye and the public gaze: He knew he was right
Marital violence and the new woman: The wing of Azrael
"Are women protected?" Sherlock Holmes and the violent home
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