Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / / Amanda Anderson.
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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| Superior document: | Reading Women Writing |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press,, [2018] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reading women writing.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (251 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Mid-Victorian Conceptions of Character, Agency, and Reform: Social Science and the "Great Social Evil"
- 2. "The Taint the Very Tale Conveyed" : Self-Reading, Suspicion, and Fallenness in Dickens
- 3· Melodrama, Morbidity, and Unthinking Sympathy: Gaskell' s Mary Barton and Ruth
- 4 . Dramatic Monologue in Crisis: Agency and Exchange in D. G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
- 5 . Reproduced in Finer Motions: Encountering the Fallen in Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
- Afterword: Intersubjectivity and the Politics of Poststructuralism
- Works Cited
- Index