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Marital Violence In Victorian Fiction

by Lisa Surridge
language: english
Publisher: Ohio University Press, November of 2005 ‧
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The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates’ courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat “private” family violence?

Bleak Houses

Marital Violence In Victorian Fiction

by Lisa Surridge

Property Description
ISBN: 9780821416426
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Release Date: November of 2005
Language: English
Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Format: Book
Collection: Western African Studies
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
Books in English > Others
EAN: 9780821416426

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