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

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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Anderson, Amanda
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Colección:Reading Women Writing Ser.
Temas:
1800-1899
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.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Conditions morales dans la littérature.
Prostituées dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Literature: history & criticism.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature
Moral conditions in literature
Prostitutes in literature
Prostitution
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Great Britain
Literature: history & criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Tainted Souls and Painted Faces; 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.

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