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Author | : Jennifer Hedgecock |
Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1604975180 |
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"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.
Author | : Heather Braun |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1611475627 |
Download The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2013-07-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1443851000 |
Download Soft-Shed Kisses Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The femme fatale appears with unceasing regularity in the texts of major poets of the nineteenth century. She symbolises an intractable mystery, a refusal to be defined and a fierce attempt to exist outside the established gender system. Soft-Shed Kisses: Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century interrogates the construction and use of the fatal woman motif in the poetry of canonical male writers of the times, both Romantic and Victorian. Subsequent chapters investigate a variety of poems by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Charles Algernon Swinburne in which the femme fatale surfaces as the most important character. Close-readings of poetry are enriched by an examination of the same motif in visual art, set against the vivid cultural background of the Victorian era.
Author | : Adriana Craciun |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2002-12-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139436333 |
Download Fatal Women of Romanticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex.
Author | : Bram Dijkstra |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 470 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
Download Idols of Perversity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is a book filled with the dangerous fantasies of the Beautiful People of a century ago. It contains a few scenes of exemplary virtue and many more of lurid sin.
Author | : R. Stott |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1992-11-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780333556122 |
Download The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Authorship |
ISBN | : |
Download The Fate of Fenella Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Helen Hanson |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2010-07-20 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0230282016 |
Download The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
These essays trace the femme fatale across literature, visual culture and cinema, exploring the ways in which fatal femininity has been imagined in different cultural contexts and historical epochs, and moving from mythical women such as Eve, Medusa and the Sirens via historical figures such as Mata Hari to fatal women in contemporary cinema.
Author | : Coventry Kersey D. Patmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1887 |
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ISBN | : |
Download The Angel in the House Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Virginia B. Morris |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0813163765 |
Download Double Jeopardy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were "unnatural." The strongest evidence of their view is that the novelists make the women's victims deserve their violent death. Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized the cultural biases that expected women to be passive and subservient. Fictional women, like their real-life counterparts, were doubly guilty: in defying the law, they also defied their gender role. Because they were "unwomanly," they were thought worse than male criminals -- more vicious and more incorrigible. At the same time, they often got special treatment from the police and the courts simply because they were women. These contradictory attitudes reveal the critical significance of gender in defining criminal behavior and in fixing punishments. Morris provides literary and historical background for the novelists' ideas about women killers and traces the evolving notion that abused or misused women were capable of using justifiable -- if unforgivable -- violence. She argues that the criminal women in Victorian literature epitomize the ambivalent position of women generally and the particular vulnerability of a deviant minority. Her book is a valuable resource for readers concerned with criminology, literature, and feminist studies.