Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / Amanda Anderson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Reading women writing | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781501722684
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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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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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