02882nam 2200625 a 450 991046207350332120200520144314.01-283-62458-397866139370321-61147-563-5(CKB)2670000000256922(EBL)1023689(OCoLC)845246339(SSID)ssj0000759908(PQKBManifestationID)12266174(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759908(PQKBWorkID)10801713(PQKB)10475857(MiAaPQ)EBC1023689(Au-PeEL)EBL1023689(CaPaEBR)ebr10608151(CaONFJC)MIL393703(EXLCZ)99267000000025692220130508d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe rise and fall of the femme fatale in British literature, 1790-1910[electronic resource]Heather BrownMadison, N.J. ;Teaneck, N.J. Fairleigh Dickinson University Pressc20121 online resource (177 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-562-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 AuthorThe 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,English literature19th centuryHistory and criticismFemmes fatales in literatureSex role in literatureMan-woman relationships in literatureElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.Femmes fatales in literature.Sex role in literature.Man-woman relationships in literature.820.9/3522Braun Heather1975-971129MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462073503321The rise and fall of the femme fatale in British literature, 1790-19102207450UNINA