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The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature

2008 Literary Collections
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Release : 2008
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature by : Jennifer Hedgecock

Download or read book The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Hedgecock. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.

'Beauty Enthroned'

2005
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Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis 'Beauty Enthroned' by : Angela Price Fowler

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The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale

1992-11-20 Literary Criticism
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Release : 1992-11-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale by : R. Stott

Download or read book The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale written by R. Stott. This book was released on 1992-11-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-siècle. The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy's Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature

2005 English fiction
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Release : 2005
Genre : English fiction
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Book Synopsis The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature by : Jennifer Lee Hedgecock

Download or read book The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Lee Hedgecock. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910

2012 History
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Release : 2012
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 by : Heather Braun

Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 written by Heather Braun. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 explores the femme fatale's career in nineteenth-century British literature. It traces her evolution--and devolution--formally, historically, and ideologically through a selection of plays, poems, novels, and personal correspondence. Considering well-known fatal women alongside more obscure ones, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale sheds new light on emerging notions of gender, sexuality, and power throughout the long nineteenth century. By placing the fatal woman in a still-developing literary and cultural narrative, this study examines how the femme fatale adapts over time, reflecting popular tastes and socio-economic landscapes.

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