Bleak houses
by Lisa A. Surridge · 2006
'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.
English fictionHistory and criticismMarriage in literatureEnglish Domestic fictionFamily violence in literatureAbused women in literatureChild abuse in literatureViolence in literatureDomestic fiction, history and criticismEnglish fiction, history and criticism, 20th century