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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Anderson, Amanda

Titel

Tainted souls and painted faces : the rhetoric of fallenness in Victorian culture

Ist Teil von

• Reading women writing

Ort / Verlag

Ithaca : Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-236) and index. - Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL.
• 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