[Mobile book] The Private Rod : Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain
✿ Marlene Tromp ✿
| #3842348 in Books | University of Virginia Press | 2000-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.70 x1.15 x7.08l,2.34 | File Name: 0813919495 | 289 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Literary Theory More Than Socio-Historical Analysis|By Brown Paper Wrapper|I had hoped this book would provide a good social history of power and gender in the Victorian period. It does provide some insights, particularly into the class system, whereby the upper classes engaged in discrete and "genteel" marital coercion, while open displays of physical abuse were associated wi|||The Private Rod is both nuanced in its careful reading of texts and comprehensive in its larger cultural inquiry into the debate surrounding marital violence in sensation and realistic fiction as well as in legal discourse. Readers interested in both gender
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 violen...
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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Private Rod : Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain | Marlene Tromp. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
