Cruelty and companionship : conflict in nineteenth-century married life / A. James Hammerton

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: viii, 236 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-228) and index. Contents: pt. I. Working-class marriage. 1. The Targets of 'Rough Music': Respectability and Domestic Violence. 2. 'Rough Usage'. The incidence of violence. Controlling violence: the limits of reform -- pt. II. Middle-class marriage. 3. Companionate Marriage and the Challenge to Patriarchy. Prescriptive literature and the rise in expectations. Case studies in contested authority. 4. Cruelty and Divorce. The public face of middle-class marriage. The concept of matrimonial cruelty: judicial interventions. 5. The Adaptation of Patriarchy in Late-Victorian Marriage. Evidence from autobiography. Masculinity and the limits of companionate marriage -- Appendix 1: A note on sources: court records and family history -- Appendix 2: Street ballads celebrating the attack on General Haynau -- Appendix 3: Lancashire dialect poetry on domestic relationships.Subjects: 1800-1899Marriage England History 19th century. Domestic relations England History 19th century. Marital violence England History 19th century. Divorce England History 19th century. Marriage. Domestic relations. Marital violence.Marriage. Mishandeling.Conflicten. Huwelijk.Echtscheiding. Marriage Great Britain History 19th century. Domestic relations Great Britain History 19th century. Family violence Great Britain 19th century.Divorce Great Britain History. Marriage England 19th century. Women England History 19th century. Conjugal violence England History 19th century. Marriage Great Britain. Marriage England History 19th centuryDomestic relations England History 19th century. Social History.Divorce. Conflict Marriage Social history 19th century England. Marriage History 19th century. Domestic relations History 19th century. Marital violence History 19th century.Divorce History 19th century. Marriage History 19th century. Marriage England History 19th century. Domestic relations England History 19th century. Marital violence England History 19th century. Divorce England History 19th century.Marriage Great Britain History. Divorce Great Britain History. Wife abuse England History 19th century. Family violence England History 19th century.