Tainted souls and painted faces : the rhetoric of fallenness in Victorian culture
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Tainted souls and painted faces : the rhetoric of fallenness in Victorian culture
（Reading women writing / a series edited by Shari Benstock and Celeste Schenck）（Cornell paperbacks）
Cornell University Press, c1993
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"First published 1993 by Cornell University Press"--T.p. verso
"Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-244) and index
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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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