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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Main Author: Alain Jumeau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée 2005-12-01
Series:Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cve/15025
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