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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.

Conditions morales dans la littérature --- Moral conditions in literature --- Moraliteit in de literatuur --- Morals in literature --- Prostituees dans la litterature --- Prostituees in de literatuur --- Prostitutes in literature --- Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature --- Seksuele rolpatronen in de literatuur --- Sex role in literature --- English literature --- Women and literature --- Prostitution --- Moral conditions in literature. --- Prostitutes in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Prostitution in literature --- Female prostitution --- Hustling (Prostitution) --- Prostitution, Female --- Sex trade (Prostitution) --- Sex work (Prostitution) --- Street prostitution --- Trade, Sex (Prostitution) --- White slave traffic --- White slavery --- Work, Sex (Prostitution) --- Sex-oriented businesses --- Brothels --- Pimps --- Procuresses --- Red-light districts --- Sex crimes --- 19th century --- History and criticism --- Great Britain --- Prostitution - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- Sex work