Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric Of Fallenness In Victorian Culture

by Amanda Anderson

2021-01-01 12:51:07

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 w... Read more

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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File size9 X 6 X 0 in
Print pages264
PublisherCornell University Press
Publication date September 14, 1993
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780801427817

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