Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction /
Surridge, Lisa A.(Lisa Anne),1963-
Athens : Ohio University Press,
c2005.
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.
English fiction
Marriage in literature.
Domestic fiction, English
Family violence in literature.
Abused women in literature.
Child abuse in literature.
Violence in literature.