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

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, which reached a different and far wider audience than either serious or popular novels.

• | Author: Sally Mitchell
• | Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 01, 1981
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0879721553
• | ISBN-13: 9780879721558