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Surridge Lisa A (Lisa Anne), <1963-> |
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Titolo |
Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction / / Lisa Surridge |
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Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2005 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Abused women in literature |
Child abuse in literature |
Domestic fiction, English - History and criticism |
English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism |
Family violence in literature |
Marriage in literature |
Violence in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 Brontèˆ's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the context of |
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