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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... prostitute's symbolic relation to the urban environment and to the disease , de- graded material conditions , and political threats often associated with it . " 8 What I believe has been insufficiently explored in the Foucauldian ...
... prostitute's symbolic relation to the urban environment and to the disease , de- graded material conditions , and political threats often associated with it . " 8 What I believe has been insufficiently explored in the Foucauldian ...
Pàgina 48
... Prostitute , " There is a distinction between the terms prostitution and prostitute , besides that which exists between a certain course of conduct and the individual who follows it . By prostitution is understood merely an act ; while ...
... Prostitute , " There is a distinction between the terms prostitution and prostitute , besides that which exists between a certain course of conduct and the individual who follows it . By prostitution is understood merely an act ; while ...
Pàgina 62
... Prostitution Deprives Its Votaries of the Enjoyment and Sympathies of Society , " with a strong statement of the prostitute's instinctive and necessary self- exile : " Whenever a woman openly abandons herself to a life of licentiousness ...
... Prostitution Deprives Its Votaries of the Enjoyment and Sympathies of Society , " with a strong statement of the prostitute's instinctive and necessary self- exile : " Whenever a woman openly abandons herself to a life of licentiousness ...
Continguts
Social Science and the Great Social Evil | 22 |
SelfReading | 66 |
Agency and Exchange | 141 |
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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 |
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