Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / / Amanda Anderson
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Anderson Amanda
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| Titolo: |
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / / Amanda Anderson
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, NY : , : Cornell University Press, , [2018] |
| ©1993 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 820.9/353 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Tainted Souls and Painted Faces |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-2267-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910272350003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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