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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?...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Athens :
Ohio University Press,
©2005.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-262) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780821441992 082144199X |