02355nam 2200325z- 450 991058358160332120231214132941.01-5017-2268-9(CKB)5460000000023715(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89086(EXLCZ)99546000000002371520202207d2018 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTainted Souls and Painted FacesThe Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian CultureCornell University Press20181 electronic resource (264 p.)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.Tainted Souls and Painted Faces Literature: history & criticismbicsscLiterature: history & criticismLiterature: history & criticismAnderson Amandaauth864164BOOK9910583581603321Tainted Souls and Painted Faces2425272UNINA