Tainted Souls and Painted Faces The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
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ArtikelSerie: Utgivningsinformation: Ithaca Cornell University Press Cornell University Press [Imprint] 1993Beskrivning: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780801427817
- 9781501722677
- 9781501722684
- 9781501727733
- Biography, Literature and Literary studies
- Literature: history and criticism
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
- Society and Social Sciences
- Society and culture: general
- Social groups, communities and identities
- Gender studies, gender groups
- Gender studies: women and girls
- D Biography
- DS Literature
- DSB Literary studies
- DSBF Literary studies
- J Society and Social Sciences
- JB Society and culture
- JBS Social groups
- JBSF Gender studies
- JBSF1 Gender studies
- Literature
- Literature and Literary studies
- Sex and sexuality
- c 1800 to c 1900
- communities and identities
- gender groups
- general
- history and criticism
- social aspects
- thema EDItEUR
- women and girls
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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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