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

Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University and Director of the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University. She is the author of The Way We Argue Now: A Study in the Cultures of Theory and Powers of Distance: Cosmopolitanism and the Cultivation of Detachment and coeditor of Disciplinarity at the Fin de Si¿e.

Résumé

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Amanda Anderson
• Edition: Cornell University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9781501727733
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-2773-3
• Pages: 264
• Thèmes: Reading Women Writing; Reading Women Writing
• Catégorie: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Littérature générale et comparée