LEADER 03917nam 22007692 450 001 9910828966703321 005 20151005020621.0 010 $a1-107-13452-8 010 $a0-511-07395-X 010 $a1-280-16141-8 010 $a0-511-12082-6 010 $a1-139-14838-9 010 $a0-511-07377-1 010 $a0-511-48415-1 010 $a0-511-30539-7 010 $a0-511-07385-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000018110 035 $a(EBL)217989 035 $a(OCoLC)57204689 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000153679 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11946747 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000153679 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10405373 035 $a(PQKB)10756546 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511484155 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC217989 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL217989 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10069879 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL16141 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000018110 100 $a20090224d2003|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aFatal women of Romanticism /$fAdriana Craciun$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v54 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-11182-X 311 $a0-521-81668-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-318) and index. 327 $aThe subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale -- Violence against difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson and women's strength -- "The aristocracy of genius": Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette -- Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's Gothic bodies -- "In seraph strains, unpitying, to destroy": Anne Bannerman's femmes fatales -- "Life has one vast stern likeness in its gloom": Letitia Landon's philosophy of decomposition. 330 $aIncarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Romanticism ;$v54. 606 $aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aEnglish literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFemmes fatales in literature 606 $aRomanticism$zGreat Britain 606 $aWomen in literature 615 0$aEnglish literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFemmes fatales in literature. 615 0$aRomanticism 615 0$aWomen in literature. 676 $a820.9/352042 700 $aCraciun$b Adriana$f1967-$01627791 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828966703321 996 $aFatal women of Romanticism$93964549 997 $aUNINA