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The private rod : marital violence, sensation, and the law in Victorian Britain

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  • "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. 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 gender, marriage, "brutal" relationships, and even murder, were gradually incorporated into legal debates and realist fiction as the Victorian understanding of what was "real" changed. --from publisher description."

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  • "The private rod : marital violence, sensation, and the law in Victorian Britain"
  • "The Private rod : marital violence, sensation, and the law in Victorian Britain"