The  private rod
Subtitle: marital violence, sensation, and the law in Victorian Britain
By: Marlene Tromp.
Series: Victorian literature and culture series
Publisher: University Press of Virginia
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780813919492
Subjects: English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Marriage in literature.; Family violence -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain.; Domestic fiction, English -- History and criticism.; Law and literature -- History -- 19th century.; Family violence in literature.; Sensationalism in literature.
Description: "Exploring the central metaphor of marital violence in these novels, Marlene Tromp uncovers the relationship between the representations of such violence in fiction and in the law. Her investigation demonstrates that sensational constructions of gender, marriage, "brutal" relationships, and even murder, were gradually incorporated into legal debates and realist fiction as the Victorian understanding of what was "real" changed."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and index.