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

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 debat...

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Main Author: Anderson, Amanda (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1993
Series:Reading Women Writing
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