Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

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. …”
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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces : The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture / by Anderson, Amanda, 1960-

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. …”
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