Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian CultureCornell University Press, 1993 - 250 pàgines 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. |
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Pàgina 127
... Ruth as the ideal realm of recovery and redemption . An orphaned dressmaker's apprentice , Ruth falls prey to the rich Bellingham , who seduces her by playing upon her innocence , social vulnerability , and romantic susceptibilities . Ruth ...
... Ruth as the ideal realm of recovery and redemption . An orphaned dressmaker's apprentice , Ruth falls prey to the rich Bellingham , who seduces her by playing upon her innocence , social vulnerability , and romantic susceptibilities . Ruth ...
Pàgina 132
... Ruth's harshest accuser when her hidden past comes to light . Inhabiting fully the corrupt instrumental egotism of the public realm , Bradshaw refuses to honor the sanctuary of the domestic , converting his home into a political ...
... Ruth's harshest accuser when her hidden past comes to light . Inhabiting fully the corrupt instrumental egotism of the public realm , Bradshaw refuses to honor the sanctuary of the domestic , converting his home into a political ...
Pàgina 137
... Ruth's rescue precisely because it allows Ruth a measure of thoughtful consciousness untainted by morbid self - consciousness and sympathetic at its origin . As Benson says of the impending child , " Here is the very instrument to make ...
... Ruth's rescue precisely because it allows Ruth a measure of thoughtful consciousness untainted by morbid self - consciousness and sympathetic at its origin . As Benson says of the impending child , " Here is the very instrument to make ...
Continguts
Social Science and the Great Social Evil | 22 |
SelfReading | 66 |
Agency and Exchange | 141 |
Copyright | |
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture Amanda Anderson Previsualització limitada - 2018 |
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture Amanda Anderson Previsualització limitada - 2018 |
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture Amanda Anderson Visualització de fragments - 1993 |
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The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth-Century ... Patrick Brantlinger Previsualització limitada - 1998 |
Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity Martin A. Danahay Previsualització no disponible - 2005 |