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The Private Rod: Marital Violence, Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain
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Hardcover
from Univ of Virginia Pr (September 1, 2000)
9780813919492 | details & prices | 289 pages | 6.25 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.35 lbs | List price $49.50
About: 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.
About: 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.