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The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature

Author : Jennifer Hedgecock
Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1604975180
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Hedgecock and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910

Author : Heather Braun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611475627
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 written by Heather Braun and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Soft-Shed Kisses

Author : Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443851000
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Soft-Shed Kisses written by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2013-07-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale

Author : R. Stott
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333556122
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale written by R. Stott and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-11-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Idols of Perversity

Author : Bram Dijkstra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Idols of Perversity written by Bram Dijkstra and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1986 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Fate of Fenella

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Fate of Fenella written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts

Author : Helen Hanson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230282016
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts written by Helen Hanson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Neo-Victorian Villains

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004322256
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Neo-Victorian Villains written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neo-Victorian Villains offers a varied and stimulating range of essays on the afterlives of Victorian villains in popular culture, exploring their representation and adaptation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction.

Victorian Heroines

Author : Kimberley Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Heroines written by Kimberley Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Angel in the House

Author : Coventry Kersey D. Patmore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Angel in the House written by Coventry Kersey D. Patmore and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature

Author : Jennifer Lee Hedgecock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Lee Hedgecock and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Darkest London

Author : Jamieson Ridenhour
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810887770
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book In Darkest London written by Jamieson Ridenhour and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century, London was a complex, vibrant, and multi-faceted city, the first true metropolis. As such, it contained within it a widely disparate array of worlds and cultures. Representations of London in literature varied just as widely. In the late 1830s, London began appearing as a site of literary terror, and by the end of the century a large proportion of the important Victorian "Gothic revival" novels were set in the city: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Three Impostors, The Beetle, Dracula, and many others. In Darkest London is a full-length study of the Victorian Urban Gothic, a pervasive mode that appears not only in straightforward novels of terror like those mentioned above but also in the works of mainstream authors such as Charles Dickens and in the journalism and travel literature of the time. In this volume, author Jamieson Ridenhour looks beyond broad considerations of the Gothic as a historical mode to explore the development of London and the concurrent rise of the Urban Gothic. He also considers very specific aspects of London's representation in these works and draws upon recent and then-contemporary theories, close readings of relevant texts, and cartography to support and expand these ideas. This book examines the work of both canonical and non-canonical authors, including Dickens, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, G.W.M. Reynolds, Richard Marsh, Arthur Machen, Marie Belloc Lowndes, and Oscar Wilde. Placing the conventions of the Gothic form in their proper historical context, In Darkest London will appeal to scholars and students interested in an in-depth survey of the Urban Gothic.

Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621969797
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir

Author : J. Grossman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230274986
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Femme Fatale in Film Noir written by J. Grossman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the context of nineteenth-century Victorinoir and close readings of original-cycle film noir, Julie Grossman argues that the presence of the "femme fatale" figure, as she is understood in film criticism and popular culture, is drastically over-emphasized and has helped to sustain cultural obsessions with "bad" women.

Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 144223234X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian literature’s fascination with the past, its examination of social injustice, and its struggle to deal with the dichotomy between scientific discoveries and religious faith continue to fascinate scholars and contemporary readers. During the past hundred years, traditional formalist and humanist criticism has been augmented by new critical approaches, including feminism and gender studies, psychological criticism, cultural studies, and others. In Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature, twelve scholars offer new assessments of Victorian poetry, novels, and nonfiction. Their essays examine several major authors and works, and introduce discussions of many others that have received less scholarly attention in the past. General reviews of the current status of Victorian literature in the academic world are followed by essays on such writers as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, and the Brontë sisters. These are balanced by essays that focus on writing by women, the development of the social problem novel, and the continuity of Victorian writers with their Romantic forebears. Most importantly, the contributors to this volume approach Victorian literature from a decidedly contemporary scholarly angle and write for a wide audience of specialists and non-specialists alike. Their essays offer readers an idea of how critical commentary in recent years has influenced—and in some cases changed radically—our understanding of and approach to literary study in general and the Victorian period in particular. Hence, scholars, teachers, and students will find the volume a useful survey of contemporary commentary not just on Victorian literature, but also on the period as a whole.

The "Femme Fatale" as Symbol of the Creative Imagination in Late Victorian Fiction

Author : Larry Thomas Biddison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book The "Femme Fatale" as Symbol of the Creative Imagination in Late Victorian Fiction written by Larry Thomas Biddison and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fatal Women of Romanticism

Author : Adriana Craciun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139436333
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Fatal Women of Romanticism written by Adriana Craciun and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-12-12 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.