Fallen Woman

Author : George Watt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317200796

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The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel by George Watt Pdf

A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of sympathetic creations which clash with many prevailing social attitudes, and especially with the supposedly accepted dichotomy of the ‘two women’. This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century literature and women in literature.

Author : George Watt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317200802

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The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel by George Watt Pdf

A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of sympathetic creations which clash with many prevailing social attitudes, and especially with the supposedly accepted dichotomy of the ‘two women’. This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century literature and women in literature.

Author : Allison Mann,Linda May Spencer,Emily Jean
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1735773832

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Fallen Woman by Allison Mann,Linda May Spencer,Emily Jean Pdf

Author : Amanda Anderson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722677

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Tainted Souls and Painted Faces by Amanda Anderson Pdf

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.

Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250030948

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Fallen Women by Sandra Dallas Pdf

From the ballrooms and mansions of Denver's newly wealthy, to the seamy life of desperate women, Fallen Women illuminates the darkest places of the human heart. It is the spring of 1885 and wealthy New York socialite Beret Osmundsen has been estranged from her younger sister, Lillie, for a year when she gets word from her aunt and uncle that Lillie has died suddenly in Denver. What they do not tell her is that Lillie had become a prostitute and was brutally murdered in the brothel where she had been living. When Beret discovers the sordid truth of Lillie's death, she makes her way to Denver, determined to find her sister's murderer. Detective Mick McCauley may not want her involved in the case, but Beret is determined, and the investigation soon takes her from the dangerous, seedy underworld of Denver's tenderloin to the highest levels of Denver society. Along the way, Beret not only learns the depths of Lillie's depravity, but also exposes the sinister side of Gilded Age ambition in the process. Sandra Dallas once again delivers a page-turner filled with mystery, intrigue, and the kind of intricate detail that truly transports you to another time and place.

Author : Bianca Tredennick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317002079

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Victorian Transformations by Bianca Tredennick Pdf

Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and created change. The volume focuses on literature, particularly issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire. For example, the essays suggest that changes in the novel's form correspond with shifting notions of human nature in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris; technical forms such as the villanelle and chant royal are crucial bridges between Victorian and Modernist poetics; Victorian theater moves from privileging the text to valuing the spectacles that characterized much of Victorian staging; Carlyle's Past and Present is a rallying cry for replacing the static and fractured language of the past with a national language deep in shared meaning; Dante Gabriel Rossetti posits unachieved desire as the means of rescuing the subject from the institutional forces that threaten to close down and subsume him; and the return of Adelaide Anne Procter's fallen nun to the convent in "A Legend of Provence" can be read as signaling a more modern definition of gender and sexuality that allows for the possibility of transgressive desire within society. The collection concludes with an essay that shows neo-Victorian authors like John Fowles and A. S. Byatt contending with the Victorian preoccupations with gender and sexuality.

Author : Andrea O'Reilly Herrera,Elizabeth Mahn Nollen
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0879727462

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Family Matters in the British and American Novel by Andrea O'Reilly Herrera,Elizabeth Mahn Nollen Pdf

Family Matters in the British and American Novel examines the literature that challenges and alters widely held assumptions about the form of the family, familial authority patterns, and the function of courtship, marriage, and family life from the late-eighteenth century to the present day.

Author : Mrs. Rowson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PRNC:32101064071242

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Charlotte Temple by Mrs. Rowson Pdf

Author : Dr Bianca Tredennick
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478720

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Victorian Transformations by Dr Bianca Tredennick Pdf

Proposing the concept of transformation as a key to understanding the Victorian period, this collection explores the protean ways in which the nineteenth century conceived of, responded to, and created change. The volume focuses on literature, particularly issues related to genre, nationalism, and desire. For example, the essays suggest that changes in the novel's form correspond with shifting notions of human nature in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris; technical forms such as the villanelle and chant royal are crucial bridges between Victorian and Modernist poetics; Victorian theater moves from privileging the text to valuing the spectacles that characterized much of Victorian staging; Carlyle's Past and Present is a rallying cry for replacing the static and fractured language of the past with a national language deep in shared meaning; Dante Gabriel Rossetti posits unachieved desire as the means of rescuing the subject from the institutional forces that threaten to close down and subsume him; and the return of Adelaide Anne Procter's fallen nun to the convent in "A Legend of Provence" can be read as signaling a more modern definition of gender and sexuality that allows for the possibility of transgressive desire within society. The collection concludes with an essay that shows neo-Victorian authors like John Fowles and A. S. Byatt contending with the Victorian preoccupations with gender and sexuality.

Author : Lea Jacobs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520207904

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The Wages of Sin by Lea Jacobs Pdf

Examines how film censors and producers treated the "fallen woman" or "sex picture" subject.

Author : Elizabeth Kingston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154301481X

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A Fallen Lady by Elizabeth Kingston Pdf

Six years ago, to the outrage of her family and the delight of London gossips, Lady Helen Dehaven refused to marry the man to whom she was betrothed. Even more shockingly, her refusal came on the heels of her scandalous behavior: she and her betrothed were caught in a most compromising position. Leaving her reputation in tatters and her motivations a mystery, Helen withdrew to a simple life in a little village among friends, where her secrets remained hers alone. For reasons of his own, Stephen Hampton, Lord Summerdale, is determined to learn the truth behind the tangled tale of Helen's ruin. There is nothing he abhors so much as scandal - nothing he prizes so well as discretion - and so he is shocked to find, when he tracks Helen down, that he cannot help but admire her. Against all expectations, he finds himself forgiving her scandalous history in favor of only being near her.But the bitter past will not relinquish Helen's heart so easily. How can she trust a man so steeped in the culture of high society, who conceals so much? And how can he, so devoted to the appearance of propriety, ever love a fallen lady?

Author : Nancy Carson
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780008134884

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A Fallen Woman by Nancy Carson Pdf

An unforgettable saga, full of romance, shocking secrets and page-turning scandal . . .

Author : Regina G. Kunzel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300065094

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Fallen Women, Problem Girls by Regina G. Kunzel Pdf

During the first half of the twentieth century, out-of-wedlock pregnancy came to be seen as one of the most urgent and compelling problems of the day. The effort to define its meaning fueled a struggle among three groups of women: evangelical reformers who regarded unmarried mothers as fallen sisters to be saved, a new generation of social workers who viewed them as problem girls to be treated, and unmarried mothers themselves. Drawing on previously unexamined case records from maternity homes, Regina Kunzel explores how women negotiated the crisis of single pregnancy and analyzes the different ways they understood and represented unmarried motherhood. Fallen Women, Problem Girls is a social and cultural history of out-of-wedlock pregnancy in the United States from 1890 to 1945. Kunzel analyzes how evangelical women drew on a long tradition of female benevolence to create maternity homes that would redeem and reclaim unmarried mothers. She shows how, by the 1910s, social workers struggling to achieve professional legitimacy tried to dissociate their own work from that earlier tradition, replacing the reform rhetoric of sisterhood with the scientific language of professionalism. By analyzing the important and unexplored transition from the conventions of nineteenth-century reform to the professional imperatives of twentieth-century social welfare, Kunzel offers a new interpretation of gender and professionalization. Kunzel places shifting constructions of out-of-wedlock pregnancy within a broad history of gender, sexuality, class, and race, and argues that the contests among evangelical women, social workers, and unmarried mothers distilled larger generational and cross-class conflicts among women in the first half of the twentieth century.

Author : Joseph McMinn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0389209627

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The Internationalism of Irish Literature and Drama by Joseph McMinn Pdf

This book contains the proceedings of the Seventh Triennial Conference of the I.A.S.A.I.L. held at Coleraine in July of 1988.

Author : Adrian Radu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527582446

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Studies in the Victorian and Neo-Victorian Novel by Adrian Radu Pdf

Readers of the nineteenth century novel expected literature to be a form journalism and fictional history. They wanted to read about easily identifiable situations with a chronological, straightforward and easily discernible development of plot, familiar backgrounds and credible characters. About a hundred years later, the Victorian novel became the great tradition, omnipresent and reliable. However, today the age and the context are different, and novels need more substance, including such themes as memory, race and empire, sex and science, spectrality and the heritage industry or key issues like gender, sexuality, and postmodernism. All these elements are considered Neo-Victorian which, in spite of their novelty, do point to a certain Victorian “anchor”. This volume contains ten studies, the substance of which is the analysis of novels that, according to their date of publication, are products of the Victorian and Neo-Victorian periods as defined above. The authors investigate and discuss Victorian roots and characteristics, preserved or recycled Victorian themes, Neo-Victorian characters and motifs, or any other characteristics that may label them as Victorian or Neo-Victorian products.