The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature
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The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature
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Author : Jennifer Hedgecock
language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
Release Date : 2008
The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Hedgecock and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Collections categories.
"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 Sexual Threat And Danger Of The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature
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Author : Jennifer Lee Hedgecock
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Sexual Threat And Danger Of The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Lee Hedgecock and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with English fiction categories.
The Fabrication Of The Late Victorian Femme Fatale
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Author : Rebecca Stott
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan
Release Date : 1992
The Fabrication Of The Late Victorian Femme Fatale written by Rebecca Stott and has been published by MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with English fiction categories.
This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominent fictional type in the late 19th century British culture. It covers biological determinism, imperialism, race and theories about female sexuality.
The Rise And Fall Of The Femme Fatale In British Literature 1790 1910
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Author : Heather Braun
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2012
The Rise And Fall Of The Femme Fatale In British Literature 1790 1910 written by Heather Braun and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
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.
Victorian Heroines
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Author : Kimberley Reynolds
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Victorian Heroines written by Kimberley Reynolds and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art, Victorian categories.
Antifeminism And The Victorian Novel
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language : en
Publisher: Cambria Press
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Antifeminism And The Victorian Novel written by and has been published by Cambria Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Soft Shed Kisses
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Author : Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2013-07-26
Soft Shed Kisses written by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
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 Role Of Women In Bram Stoker S Dracula
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Author : Christian Haas
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2015-02-18
The Role Of Women In Bram Stoker S Dracula written by Christian Haas and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut für Anglistik / Literaturwissenschaft), language: English, abstract: Bram Stoker ́s novel "Dracula" presents two different kinds of women of the Victorian era: Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker. This era is characterised with the emerging ‘New Woman’ movement. Many critics persuade us, that Mina and Lucy embody paradigmatic representatives of the ‘New Women’ ideas and behaviour. In this work the main characteristics to the female characters of the novel will be given, considering the reasons of their actions by contrasting their Victorian and ‘New Women’ features.
Double Jeopardy
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Author : Virginia B. Morris
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Double Jeopardy written by Virginia B. Morris and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Literary Criticism categories.
Murder fascinates readers, and when a woman murders, that fascination is compounded. The paradox of mother, lover, or wife as killer fills us with shock. A woman's violence is unexpected, unacceptable. Yet killing an abusive man can make her a cultural heroine. In Double Jeopardy, Virginia Morris examines the complex roots of contemporary attitudes toward women who kill by providing a new perspective on violent women in Victorian literature. British novelists from Dickens to Hardy, in their characterizations, contradicted the traditional Western assumption that women criminals were "unnatural." The strongest evidence of their view is that the novelists make the women's victims deserve their violent death. Yet the women characters who commit murder are punished because their sympathetic Victorian creators had internalized the cultural biases that expected women to be passive and subservient. Fictional women, like their real-life counterparts, were doubly guilty: in defying the law, they also defied their gender role. Because they were "unwomanly," they were thought worse than male criminals—more vicious and more incorrigible. At the same time, they often got special treatment from the police and the courts simply because they were women. These contradictory attitudes reveal the critical significance of gender in defining criminal behavior and in fixing punishments. Morris provides literary and historical background for the novelists' ideas about women killers and traces the evolving notion that abused or misused women were capable of using justifiable—if unforgivable—violence. She argues that the criminal women in Victorian literature epitomize the ambivalent position of women generally and the particular vulnerability of a deviant minority. Her book is a valuable resource for readers concerned with criminology, literature, and feminist studies.
Fashion And Narrative In Victorian Popular Literature
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Author : Madeleine C. Seys
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-10
Fashion And Narrative In Victorian Popular Literature written by Madeleine C. Seys and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-10 with Literary Criticism categories.
We know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our dress can be telling of our political views, religious beliefs, sexuality and countless other identifying traits that we can keep hidden or show to the world by our choice of what to wear when heading venturing out. This was absolutely true, famously so, in the Victorian Era in which men and women alike wore their status on their often lavish, embellished sleeves. In her new book, Dr. Madeleine Seyes explores Victorian culture through the lens of fashion in her new book, Double Threads: Fashion and Victorian Popular Literature, which sits at the intersection of the fields of Victorian literary studies, dress and material cultural studies, feminist literary criticism, and gender and sexuality studies.