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

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

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Series: Reading Women Writing

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1501727737
ISBN13: 9781501727733
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2018
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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