Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture Paperback / softback
by Amanda Anderson
Part of the Reading Women Writing series
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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 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:15/08/2018
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- ISBN:9781501727733
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:Cornell University Press
- Publication Date:15/08/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781501727733
