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Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

English

By (author): Jina Moon

This book opens the curtain on the crucial role played by Victorian and Edwardian novelists in changing views of domestic violence. Examining the mechanisms of domestic violence through the historical lenses of the law, crime, and economics, this study illuminates these novelists depictions of wife-battering, including scenes in which women witness their children being beaten or children witness their mothers beatings. This book also shows how these representations interacted with changing paradigms of masculinity and femininity at the time.Extending from the decades before the 1857 Divorce Act to the Suffrage era, the book details the changing circumstances of conjugal violence and divorce in England. William Makepeace Thackerays The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844) and Caroline Nortons Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times (1851) expose the impact of class on reactions to domestic violence. Wilkie Collinss The Law and the Lady (1875) and Ouidas (Marie Louise de la Ramé) Moths (1880) depict proto-New Women figures who resist domestic violence, while traditional wife figures continue to fall victim. In Mona Cairds The Wing of Azrael (1889) and Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) and The Adventure of the Abbey Grange (1904), protagonists exact their own justice on perpetrators of domestic violence. By the Edwardian period, it was clear that legislation alone could not solve the problems of domestic violence. Constance Mauds No Surrender (1911) adroitly links wife-battering with public violence against suffragettes, exposing the underlying British socio-cultural system that maintained womens subordination. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Mar 2016
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443889483

About Jina Moon

Jina Moon is a Teaching Fellow in English Language and Literature at the University of Tulsa USA. She received her MA in English from Yonsei University South Korea in 2006 and won two competitive awards for essays on suffrage writer Elizabeth Robons The Convert and seventeenth-century political writer William Hatchett as well as a Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarship and a Chapman Graduate Scholar Award while pursuing her PhD. She has submitted three articles on William Makepeace Thackeray Constance Maud and William Hatchett to Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies Nineteenth-Century Contexts and Eighteenth-Century Studies respectively.

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