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''Challenges readers to acknowledge the extent to which violence figured in medieval texts and, with this recognition, to reconsider what the works teach us not only about the treatments and troping of victims in the medieval world but also how these patterns are a part of the social history of domestic violence.

Family violence in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature, Medieval. --- Family violence in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature - General --- European literature --- Medieval literature --- History and criticism

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In 'The Dark Thread', scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in which incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite "high" and "low" cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories.

Tragic, The, in literature --- Family violence in literature --- Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- History and criticism

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In 'The Dark Thread', scholars examine a set of important and perennial narrative motifs centered on violence within the family as they have appeared in French, English, Spanish, and American literatures. Over fourteen essays, contributors highlight the connections between works from early modernity and subsequent texts from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries in which incidents such as murder, cannibalism, poisoning, the burial of the living, the failed burial of the dead, and subsequent apparitions of ghosts that haunt the household unite "high" and "low" cultural traditions. This book questions the traditional separation between the highly honored genre of tragedy and the less respected and generally less well-known genres of histoires tragiques, gothic tales and novels, and horror stories.

Gothic fiction (Literary genre) --- Family violence in literature. --- Tragic, The, in literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.

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The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1828 opened magistrates' courts to abused working-class wives. Newspapers in turn reported on these proceedings, and in this way the Victorian scrutiny of domestic conduct began. But how did popular fiction treat "private" family violence? Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction traces novelists' engagement with the wife-assault debates in the public press between 1828 and the turn of the century. Lisa Surridge examines the early works of Charles Dickens and reads Dombey and Son and Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall in the context of

Violence in literature. --- Child abuse in literature. --- Abused women in literature. --- Family violence in literature. --- Domestic fiction, English --- Marriage in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism.

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American literature --- English literature --- Family violence --- Family violence in literature --- Littérature américaine --- Littérature anglaise --- Violence familiale --- Violence familiale dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire et critique