Tainted Souls and Painted Faces The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture
Anderson, Amanda
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture - Ithaca Cornell University Press 1993 - 1 electronic resource (264 p.) - Reading Women Writing .
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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.
Creative Commons
English
9780801427817 9781501722677 9781501722684 9781501727733 sjtk-3290
10.7298/sjtk-3290 doi
Gender studies: women
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literature: history and criticism Sex and sexuality, social aspects
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture - Ithaca Cornell University Press 1993 - 1 electronic resource (264 p.) - Reading Women Writing .
Open Access
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.
Creative Commons
English
9780801427817 9781501722677 9781501722684 9781501727733 sjtk-3290
10.7298/sjtk-3290 doi
Gender studies: women
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Literature: history and criticism Sex and sexuality, social aspects