Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture

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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture

Title remainder

The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture

Creator

• Anderson, Amanda

Subject

• Prostitutes In Literature
• Sex Role In Literature
• English Literature -- History And Criticism | 19Th Century
• Prostitution -- Great Britain
• Women And Literature

Language

eng

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• Annotation
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BIP US

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820.9/353

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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
• 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