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

by Amanda Anderson, Amanda Anderson, Amanda Anderson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501727737
• ISBN13: 9781501727733
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher