TY - BOOK ID - 77903927 TI - Bleak houses : marital violence in Victorian fiction PY - 2005 SN - 082144199X 9780821441992 0821416421 082141643X 9780821416426 9780821416433 PB - Athens : Ohio University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Violence in literature. KW - Child abuse in literature. KW - Abused women in literature. KW - Family violence in literature. KW - Domestic fiction, English KW - Marriage in literature. KW - English fiction KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77903927 AB - 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 traces novelists' engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century. Lisa Surridge examines the early works of Charles Dickens and reads Dombey and Son and Anne Brontèˆ's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the context of ER -