Bleak houses
Bleak houses: marital violence in Victorian fiction Lisa Surridge
Publisher: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.
ISBN: 0821416421
DDC: 823.8093543
LCC: PR878
Edition: (cloth : acid-free paper)
Notes:
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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