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

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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Anderson, Amanda, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press [2018]
Colección:Reading women writing.
Materias:
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Prostitution > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Moral conditions in literature.
Prostitutes in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009422301906719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

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