Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction / Lisa Surridge.
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?...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.