Melissa Valiska Gregory
Ashgate
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Bringing together melodrama poetry visual art and fiction Melissa Valiska Gregory offers new insights into Victorian literary representations of domestic conflict by focusing on psychological terror within the home. Arguing that depictions of terrorized women are fundamental to the development of new literary forms in the period Gregory explores the connections between the exertion of male power and intellectual authority in writers such as Dickens Tennyson Robert Browning and James.
Ashgate
Hardback
226
Bringing together melodrama poetry visual art and fiction Melissa Valiska Gregory offers new insights into Victorian literary representations of domestic conflict by focusing on psychological terror within the home. Arguing that depictions of terrorized women are fundamental to the development of new literary forms in the period Gregory explores the connections between the exertion of male power and intellectual authority in writers such as Dickens Tennyson Robert Browning and James.