The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain - Couverture rigide

Tromp, Marlene

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0813919495 ISBN 13 : 9780813919492

Editeur : University of Virginia Press, 2000

Synopsis

The Private Rod Sensation novels, a genre characterized by scandalous narratives and emotionally and socially provocative dialogue and plots, had their heyday in England in the 1860s and 1870s, in the midst of growing concern about codes of behavior in marriage. Largely excluded from the academic canon of the late twentieth century, sensation novels had an impact on Victorian culture that we have only recently begun to evaluate.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 gende...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Virginia Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0813919495
• ISBN 13: 9780813919492
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288