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 175
... precisely because it must adapt itself to " the standard of the public taste " and learn " to carry and fetch / The fashions of the day to please the day " ( V , 270 , 272-73 ) . Actually the shift in imagery signals an important ...
... precisely because it must adapt itself to " the standard of the public taste " and learn " to carry and fetch / The fashions of the day to please the day " ( V , 270 , 272-73 ) . Actually the shift in imagery signals an important ...
Pàgina 210
... precisely despises women as women . ' Moi does not make clear precisely what she means by “ as women " ; rhetorically , she enacts the very affirmation of unified identity for which the statement calls . One might also view the ...
... precisely despises women as women . ' Moi does not make clear precisely what she means by “ as women " ; rhetorically , she enacts the very affirmation of unified identity for which the statement calls . One might also view the ...
Pàgina 229
... precisely through the evocation of an encounter : " The presence of the ' Other ' prevents me from being totally myself " : Insofar as there is an antagonism , I cannot be a full presence for myself . But nor is the force that ...
... precisely through the evocation of an encounter : " The presence of the ' Other ' prevents me from being totally myself " : Insofar as there is an antagonism , I cannot be a full presence for myself . But nor is the force that ...
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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