Bleak houses [electronic resource] : marital violence in Victorian fiction / Lisa Surridge.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 271 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.8093543 22
LOC classification:
  • PR878.M36 S87 2005eb
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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.
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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.

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