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UNINA9910462073503321 |
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Autore |
Braun Heather <1975-> |
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Titolo |
The rise and fall of the femme fatale in British literature, 1790-1910 [[electronic resource]] / Heather Brown |
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Madison, N.J. ; ; Teaneck, N.J., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-62458-3 |
9786613937032 |
1-61147-563-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Femmes fatales in literature |
Sex role in literature |
Man-woman relationships in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Literary Form and the Nineteenth-Century Femme Fatale; 1 Gothic Ballads and the Supernatural Femme Fatale; 2 The Realist Novel and the Romanticized Femme Fatale; 3 From Sensation Novel to Vampire Tale: The Erotic Femme Fatale; 4 Decadence, Self-Awareness, and the Decline of the Femme Fatale; Conclusion: Reprising the Femme Fatale; Bibliography; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale: From Gothic Ghosts to Victorian Vamps 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, this study sheds new light on emerging notions of gender, |
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