Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture /
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Language: | English |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1993.
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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.