I expand scholarship by Lawson and Shakinovsky, Rintoul, Surridge, and Tromp on marital
abuse in nineteenth-century British fiction. Due to Blackstone's theory of coverture, wives …

While many scholars have written on women and marriage in nineteenth-century British
history and fiction, this dissertation, The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in …

Abstract The Pastor's Wife (1914) may seem at first reading simply another depiction of a
woman struggling for liberation in the decades following the work of Thomas Hardy and …

ABSTRACT John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga has had a mixed critical reception. In many
ways Galsworthy has never properly recovered from the twin assaults on his work by …

Intimacy: Cousin Marriage and the Nineteenth-Century Novel, the topic of which was
suggested to me by Alan Bittles, an internationally renowned geneticist. Among the twenty …

This chapter provides an appraisal of criticism from Galsworthy's contemporaries right
through to twenty-first-century ones. The chapter explores, in a brief summary, the topic of …

This thesis offers a philosophical and affective history of the subject-object encounter in
Virginia Woolf's writings, examining how she negotiates the relationship of the (writing) …

This contribution illustrates the process of reconfiguration of female roles within domestic
spaces and the consequent questioning of the traditional family institution that took place …

Space as a container of activities reflects more than the physical interaction of its users as it
is produced materially and culturally. Users' identity, belief system, worldview and power …

A bstract Space as a container of activities reflects more than the physical interaction of its
users as it is produced materially and culturally. Users' identity, belief system, worldview and …