Fallen Women in George Eliot’s Early Novels
The Victorians placed such an importance on virginity and chastity that they regarded a woman’s loss of chastity as ‘the tragedy of tragedies’. This paper deals with this form of moral and sexual deviance as it is represented in the early novels of George Eliot. It starts with two minor works, Scene...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2005-12-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/15025 |
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