Suchergebnisse

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1: On Victorian Time Historiographies of Culture -- 1 The Victorians in the Rearview Mirror -- 2 The Legacy of Victorian Spectacle -- Part 2: Victorian Commodities for Postmodern Consumers -- 3 The New Victorians -- 4 More Stories about Clothing and Furniture -- Part 3: The Ways Victorians Live Now -- 5 Wilde Americana -- 6 Victorians on Broadway at the Present Time -- 7 Rounding Up the Usual Suspect -- 8 Legal Uses of Victorian Fic -- 9 "Nurs'd up amongst the scenes I have describ'd" -- 10 Revisiting the Serial Format of Dickens's Novels -- or, Little Dorrit Goes a Long Way -- 11 Disseminating Victorian Culture in the Postmillennial Classroom -- Contributors -- Index.

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.