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

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

Amanda Anderson

256 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 wom...

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