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

by Sally Mitchell

Book Overview

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"