The Fabrication of the Late Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death (Women's Studies at York/Macmillan) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Fabrication of the Late Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death (Women's Studies at York/Macmillan) Book

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.Read More

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    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-siecle. 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.

  • 0333669606
  • 9780333669600
  • Rebecca Stott
  • 18 December 1996
  • Palgrave Macmillan
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 280
  • New Ed
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