LEADER 02355nam 2200325z- 450 001 9910583581603321 005 20231214132941.0 010 $a1-5017-2268-9 035 $a(CKB)5460000000023715 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89086 035 $a(EXLCZ)995460000000023715 100 $a20202207d2018 |y 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmn|---annan 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTainted Souls and Painted Faces$eThe Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture 210 $cCornell University Press$d2018 215 $a1 electronic resource (264 p.) 330 $aProstitute, 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. 517 $aTainted Souls and Painted Faces 606 $aLiterature: history & criticism$2bicssc 610 $aLiterature: history & criticism 615 7$aLiterature: history & criticism 700 $aAnderson$b Amanda$4auth$0864164 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910583581603321 996 $aTainted Souls and Painted Faces$92425272 997 $aUNINA