Tainted Souls and Painted Faces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tainted Souls and Painted Faces write by Amanda Anderson. This book was released on 2018-03-15. Tainted Souls and Painted Faces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 debates over the nature of selfhood, gender, and agency. In richly textured readings of works by Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, among others, she argues that depictions of fallen women express profound cultural anxieties about the very possibility of self-control and traditional moral responsibility.
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces
Tainted Souls and Painted Faces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tainted Souls and Painted Faces write by Amanda Anderson. This book was released on 1989. Tainted Souls and Painted Faces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Walking the Victorian Streets
Walking the Victorian Streets - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Walking the Victorian Streets write by Deborah Epstein Nord. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Walking the Victorian Streets available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Literary traditions of urban description in the nineteenth century revolve around the figure of the stroller, a man who navigates and observes the city streets with impunity. Whether the stroller appears as fictional character, literary persona, or the nameless, omnipresent narrator of panoramic fiction, he casts the woman of the streets in a distinctive role. She functions at times as a double for the walker's marginal and alienated self and at others as connector and contaminant, carrier of the literal and symbolic diseases of modern urban life. In Walking the Victorian Streets, Deborah Epstein Nord explores the way in which the female figure is used as a marker for social suffering, poverty, and contagion in texts by De Quincey, Lamb, Pierce Egan, and Dickens. What, then, of the female walker and urban chronicler? While the male spectator enjoyed the ability to see without being seen, the female stroller struggled to transcend her role as urban spectacle and her association with sexual transgression. In novels, nonfiction, and poetry by Elizabeth Gaskell1 Flora Tristan, Margaret Harkness, Amy Levy, Maud Pember Reeves, Beatrice Webb, Helen Bosanquet, and others, Nord locates the tensions felt by the female spectator conscious of herself as both observer and observed. Finally, Walking the Victorian Streets considers the legacy of urban rambling and the uses of incognito in twentieth-century texts by George Orwell and Virginia Woolf.
The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature
The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature write by Jennifer Hedgecock. This book was released on 2008. The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.
Married, Middlebrow, and Militant
Married, Middlebrow, and Militant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Married, Middlebrow, and Militant write by Teresa Mangum. This book was released on 1998. Married, Middlebrow, and Militant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the life and work of this daring nineteenth-century author and women's rights advocate
