The Fallen Angel: Chastity, Class and Women's Reading, 1835-1880

by Sally Mitchell

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This book discusses the figure of the unchaste woman in a wide range of fiction written between 1835 and 1880; serious novels by Dickens, Mrs. Gaskell, Meredith, and George Eliot; popular novels that provided light reading for middle-class women (including books by Dinah Craik, Rhoda Broughton, and Ouida); sensational fiction; propaganda for social reform; and stories in cheap periodicals such as the Family Herald and the London Journal,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0879721553

ISBN13:9780879721558

Release Date:January 1981

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.20 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

Books & Reading Classics European Gender Studies History & Criticism History of Books Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Politics & Social Sciences

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