The private rod : marital violence, sensation, and the law in Victorian Britain / Marlene Tromp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tromp, Marlene, 1966-

Series:

Victorian literature and culture series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

English fiction.

Marriage in literature.

Family violence--Law and legislation--Great Britain.

Family violence.

Domestic fiction, English--History and criticism.

Domestic fiction, English.

Law and literature--History--19th century.

Law and literature.

Family violence in literature.

Sensationalism in literature.

History.

Family violence--Law and legislation.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

x, 289 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2000.

Contents:

Introduction: Sensation, Violence, and Privacy 1

1. Fictional Records

I. A "Pound" of Flesh: Morality and the Economy of Sexual Violence in Oliver Twist 23

2. Sensational Revision

II. Brutality and Propriety: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and the Divorce Act of 1857 69

III. The Dangerous Woman: Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Sensational (En)gendering of Domestic Law in Aurora Floyd 103

3. Realism Reconsidered

IV. Sensational Violations: Betraying Boundaries in Margaret Oliphant's Salem Chapel 155

V. Gwendolen's Madness: Sensational Performance and Reasonable Fear in Daniel Deronda 199

Conclusion: Four Cases of Victorian Values 240.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-279) and index.

ISBN:

0813919495

OCLC:

43567397