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Girls Who Went Wrong: Prostitutes in American Fiction, 1885–1917
University of Wisconsin Press, 1989 Paper: 978-0-87972-474-0 | Cloth: 978-0-87972-473-3 Library of Congress Classification PS374.P67H37 1989 Dewey Decimal Classification 813.0093520692
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The period 1885 to 1917 saw thousands of American crusaders working hard to “save the fallen women,” but little on the part of American social protest writers. In this first work on the subject, Laura Hapke examines how writers attempted to turn an outcast into a heroine in a literature otherwise known for its puritanical attitude toward the fallen woman. She focuses on how these authors (all male) expressed late-Victorian conflicts about female sexuality. If, as they all maintained, women have an innate preference for chastity, how could they account for the prostitute? Was she a sinner, suggesting the potential waywardness of all women? Or, if she was a victim, what of her “depravity”? See other books on: Girls in literature | Hapke, Laura | Prostitutes | Prostitutes in literature | Women in literature See other titles from University of Wisconsin Press |
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Girls Who Went Wrong: Prostitutes in American Fiction, 1885–1917
ABOUT THIS BOOK
University of Wisconsin Press, 1989
Paper: 978-0-87972-474-0
Cloth: 978-0-87972-473-3
Paper: 978-0-87972-474-0
Cloth: 978-0-87972-473-3
The period 1885 to 1917 saw thousands of American crusaders working hard to “save the fallen women,” but little on the part of American social protest writers. In this first work on the subject, Laura Hapke examines how writers attempted to turn an outcast into a heroine in a literature otherwise known for its puritanical attitude toward the fallen woman. She focuses on how these authors (all male) expressed late-Victorian conflicts about female sexuality. If, as they all maintained, women have an innate preference for chastity, how could they account for the prostitute? Was she a sinner, suggesting the potential waywardness of all women? Or, if she was a victim, what of her “depravity”?
ABOUT THIS BOOK
