Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-century Novel

Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-century Novel
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Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 0312101732
ISBN-13 : 9780312101732
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Book Synopsis Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-century Novel by : Tom Winnifrith

Download or read book Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-century Novel written by Tom Winnifrith and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nineteenth-century sexual conduct was not all that different from its twentieth-century equivalent, but the conventions under which this conduct was recounted were very different. Fallen Women in the Nineteenth-Century Novel examines the way in which the great nineteenth-century novelists managed to say something new and true and important about sexual behaviour in spite of, or perhaps because of, rules which dictated that the recording of this behaviour should combine the utmost discretion and deep disapproval. Austen, Bronte, Eliot, Thackeray, Dickens and Hardy had no great sympathy with this degree of discretion or disapproval. They fought to reveal the truth as seen in the events of their own lives. On the surface their fallen heroines like Hetty Sorrel or Little Emily or Tess Durbeyfield seem to suffer the conventional cruel fate of the erring female, death or Australia or both. Tom Winnifrith examines ways in which the great novelists continued, unlike their inferior contemporaries, to portray the complexities underlying the simple division of women into angels and whores."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved


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