The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain by Marlene Tromp

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

Victorian Literature & Culture (Hardcover)

Marlene Tromp

289 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary sociology challenging medium-paced
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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. ...

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