Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture

Tainted Souls and Painted Faces The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture

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Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction-the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debat...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Anderson, Amanda, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2018]
Colección:Reading women writing.
Materias:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Prostitution > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Moral conditions in literature.
Prostitutes in literature.
Sex role in literature.
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Sumario:Prostitute, adulteress, unmarried woman who engages in sexual relations, victim of seduction-the Victorian "fallen woman" represents a complex array of stigmatized conditions. Amanda Anderson here reconsiders the familiar figure of the fallen woman within the context of mid-Victorian debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (251 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781501722677

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