ISBN:
9781501722677
,
9781501727733
,
9781501722684
,
9780801427817
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (264 p.)
Series Statement:
Reading Women Writing
DDC:
820.9/353
Keywords:
Gender studies: women
;
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
;
Gender studies: women and girls
;
Literature: history and criticism
;
Sex and sexuality, social aspects
;
Electronic book
Abstract:
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
Note:
English
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