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 72
... seems to deny the woman any mediating consciousness . 13 The policy of forbidding reference to the women's histories thus repeats the same fantasy of severance that the policy of emigration does : both attempt to separate a self from ...
... seems to deny the woman any mediating consciousness . 13 The policy of forbidding reference to the women's histories thus repeats the same fantasy of severance that the policy of emigration does : both attempt to separate a self from ...
Pàgina 120
... seems to be written in the minor key ; indeed , the very design seems to me to require this treatment . I acknowl- edge the fault of there being too heavy a shadow over the book ; but I doubt if the story could have been deeply realized ...
... seems to be written in the minor key ; indeed , the very design seems to me to require this treatment . I acknowl- edge the fault of there being too heavy a shadow over the book ; but I doubt if the story could have been deeply realized ...
Pàgina 162
... seems active , producing a kind of refutation effect against the many dis- avowals of her agency . These refutations tend to occur precisely at those moments when the speaker is providing universal justifica- tions for prostitution , as ...
... seems active , producing a kind of refutation effect against the many dis- avowals of her agency . These refutations tend to occur precisely at those moments when the speaker is providing universal justifica- tions for prostitution , as ...
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 |