Tainted souls and painted faces : the rhetoric of fallenness in Victorian culture
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.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
9780801427817, 9780801481482, 9781501722677, 0801427819, 0801481481, 1501722670
27935473
Mid-Victorian conceptions of character, agency, and reform: social science and the "great social evil"
"The taint the very tale conveyed": self-reading, suspicion, and falleness in Dickens
Melodrama, morbidity, and unthinking sympathy: Gaskell's Mary Barton and Ruth
Dramatic monologue in crisis: agency and exchange in G.G. Rossetti's "Jenny"
Reproduced in finer motions: encouraging the fallen in Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh
Afterword: intersubjectivity and the politics of poststructuralism
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