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

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Main Author: Anderson, Amanda, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.