Bleak houses [electronic resource] : marital violence in Victorian fiction / Lisa Surridge.
Publication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, c2005.Description: xiv, 271 p. : illISBN:- 0821416421 (cloth : acid-free paper)
- 082141643X (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 082144199X
- 9780821441992
- 823/.8093543 22
- PR878.M36 S87 2005eb
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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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