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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Reading Women Writing) - Softcover

Book 6 of 6: Reading Women Writing

Anderson, Amanda

 
9780801481482: Tainted Souls and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture (Reading Women Writing)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0801481481 ISBN 13: 9780801481482
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1993

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University and Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. She is the author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory and Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment and coeditor of Disciplinarity at the Fin de Siècle.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0801481481
ISBN 13 
9780801481482
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
264