03317nam 2200697Ia 450 991082373000332120240405030727.00-8214-4199-X(CKB)1000000000713596(EBL)1773366(OCoLC)889675562(SSID)ssj0000277385(PQKBManifestationID)11207612(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000277385(PQKBWorkID)10240895(PQKB)11218785(MiAaPQ)EBC1773366(OCoLC)191953298(MdBmJHUP)muse9449(Au-PeEL)EBL1773366(CaPaEBR)ebr10141107(EXLCZ)99100000000071359620050411d2005 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBleak houses marital violence in Victorian fiction /Lisa Surridge1st ed.Athens Ohio University Pressc20051 online resource (271 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8214-1643-X 0-8214-1642-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and index.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.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 ofAbused women in literatureChild abuse in literatureDomestic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismEnglish fiction19th centuryHistory and criticismFamily violence in literatureMarriage in literatureViolence in literatureAbused women in literature.Child abuse in literature.Domestic fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.English fictionHistory and criticism.Family violence in literature.Marriage in literature.Violence in literature.823/.8093543Surridge Lisa A(Lisa Anne),1963-1660241MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823730003321Bleak houses4015319UNINA