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Lisa Surridge. Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction.(Book review)
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December 1, 2006
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Lisa Surridge. Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 2005. Pp. xiv + 271. Cloth $55.00. Paper $24.95.
For many years, critics seemed to pay little heed to the issue of intimate partner violence in literature. Then came Marlene Tromp's excellent study, The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain (2000). While there is much merit in Tromp's argument, and she certainly filled a gap in the field, the book's focus on sensation fiction necessarily excluded other works of interest. Lisa Surridge's Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction offers a fuller, thoroughly supported analysis of domestic ...
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