The Femme Fatale In Victorian Literature

Author : Jennifer Hedgecock
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781604975185

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The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature by Jennifer Hedgecock Pdf

"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.

Author : Rebecca Stott
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 0333669606

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The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale by Rebecca Stott Pdf

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.

Author : Heather Braun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611475623

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The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale in British Literature, 1790-1910 by Heather Braun Pdf

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.

Author : Kimberley Reynolds,Nicola Humble
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art, Victorian
ISBN : UOM:39015032739024

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Victorian Heroines by Kimberley Reynolds,Nicola Humble Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621969792

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Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443851008

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Soft-Shed Kisses by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Lee Hedgecock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English fiction
ISBN : MSU:31293027360720

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The Sexual Threat and Danger of the Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature by Jennifer Lee Hedgecock Pdf

Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442232341

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Twenty-First Century Perspectives on Victorian Literature by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

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.

Author : Bram Dijkstra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015025116289

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Idols of Perversity by Bram Dijkstra Pdf

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.

Author : Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
ISBN : 9781438109114

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Encyclopedia of Gothic Literature by Mary Ellen Snodgrass Pdf

Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of authors associated with Gothic literature.

Author : James Eli Adams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470672396

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A History of Victorian Literature by James Eli Adams Pdf

Incorporating a broad range of contemporary scholarship, A History of Victorian Literature presents an overview of the literature produced in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, with fresh consideration of both major figures and some of the era's less familiar authors. Part of the Blackwell Histories of Literature series, the book describes the development of the Victorian literary movement and places it within its cultural, social and political context. A wide-ranging narrative overview of literature in Great Britain between 1830 and 1900, capturing the extraordinary variety of literary output produced during this era Analyzes the development of all literary forms during this period - the novel, poetry, drama, autobiography and critical prose - in conjunction with major developments in social and intellectual history Considers the ways in which writers engaged with new forms of social responsibility in their work, as Britain transformed into the world's first industrial economy Offers a fresh perspective on the work of both major figures and some of the era’s less familiar authors Winner of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award, 2009

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Authorship
ISBN : BSB:BSB11664197

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The Fate of Fenella by Anonim Pdf

Author : Helen Hanson,Catherine O'Rawe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230282018

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The Femme Fatale: Images, Histories, Contexts by Helen Hanson,Catherine O'Rawe Pdf

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.

Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822307898

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The Living Dead by James B. Twitchell Pdf

In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.

Author : S. Simkin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137313324

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Cultural Constructions of the Femme Fatale by S. Simkin Pdf

The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes fatales' and their fictional counterparts.