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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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Pubblicazione: | Madison, N.J. ; ; Teaneck, N.J., : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/3522 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Femmes fatales in literature | |
Sex role in literature | |
Man-woman relationships in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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, |
Titolo autorizzato: | The rise and fall of the femme fatale in British literature, 1790-1910 ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-62458-3 |
9786613937032 | |
1-61147-563-5 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910785728903321 |
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