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Pages: 252
Authors: Jennifer Hedgecock
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"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed
The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910
Language: en
Pages: 177
Authors: Heather Braun
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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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 he
Soft-Shed Kisses
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
Categories: Literary Criticism
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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
The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Rebecca Stott
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: MacMillan

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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, imperi
Idols of Perversity
Language: en
Pages: 470
Authors: Bram Dijkstra
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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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