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

By: Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005Description: xiv, 271 p. : illSubject(s): 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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 823/.8093543 LOC classification: PR878.M36 | S87 2005Online resources: Click to View
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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