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

Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / Amanda Anderson. - 1 online resource (264 pages). - Reading women writing . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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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Geschichte 1837-1901.
Geschichte 1832-1902.
litterature anglaise--prostitution--19e s.
Rôle selon le sexe--Dans la litterature.
Prostitution dans la litterature.
Prostitution--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Femmes et litterature--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle
Sex role in literature.
Prostitution in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Prostitution--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women and literature--Great Britain--19th century.
French literature--History and criticism.--19th century
Engels.
Prostitutie.
Vrouwen.
Letterkunde.
Prostituierte
Prostituierte
Moral
Literatur
Geschlechterrolle
Gefallenes Mädchen
Frau
Englisch
Women and literature.
Sex role in literature.
Prostitution.
Prostitutes in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
English literature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Prostituees dans la litterature.
Conditions morales dans la litterature.
Prostitution--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Femmes et litterature--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise--Histoire et critique.--19e siecle
Literatur.
Geschichte.
Frau.
Englisch.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la litterature.
Prostituees dans la litterature.
Prostitution - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 19e siecle.
Litterature anglaise - 19e siecle - Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature - Grande-Bretagne - Histoire - 19e siecle.
Conditions morales dans la litterature.
Sex role in literature.
Prostitutes in literature.
Moral conditions in literature.
Prostitution--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women and literature--History--Great Britain--19th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--19th century


Englisch.
Great Britain.
Grossbritannien.


History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.