The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women's Reading, 1835-1880

by Sally Mitchell

2021-01-03 22:42:19

This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Meredith, and George Eliot; popular novels that provided light reading for middle-class women (inc... Read more

This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Meredith, and George Eliot; popular novels that provided light reading for middle-class women (including books by Dinah Craik, Rhoda Broughton, and Ouida); sensational fiction; propaganda for social reform; and stories in cheap periodicals such as the "Family Herald" and the "London Journal," which reached a different and far wider audience than either serious or popular novels. Less

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File size9 X 6 X 0.7 in
Print pages240
PublisherUniversity Of Wisconsin Press
Publication date January 1, 1981
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780879721558

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