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Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Surridge, Lisa A. (Lisa Anne), 1963-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, [2005]
Subjects:
Violence in literature.
Child abuse in literature.
Abused women in literature.
Family violence in literature.
Domestic fiction, English > History and criticism.
Marriage in literature.
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.