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oapen-20.500.12657-620882024-03-27T14:14:45Z Tainted Souls and Painted Faces Anderson, Amanda Literature: history and criticism Sex and sexuality, social aspects thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls 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. 2023-03-29T15:50:12Z 2023-03-29T15:50:12Z 1993 book ONIX_20230329_9781501722677_74 9781501722677 9781501727733 9781501722684 9780801427817 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/62088 eng Reading Women Writing application/pdf application/epub+zip Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781501722677.pdf 9781501722684.epub http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780801427817/tainted-souls-and-painted-faces Cornell University Press Cornell University Press 10.7298/sjtk-3290 10.7298/sjtk-3290 06a447d4-1d09-460f-8b1d-3b4b09d64407 0314e571-4102-4526-b014-3ed8f2d6750a 9781501722677 9781501727733 9781501722684 9780801427817 Cornell University Press 264 Ithaca [...] Open Book Program National Endowment for the Humanities NEH open access
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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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