The Rise And Fall Of The Femme Fatale In British Literature 1790 1910

Author : Heather Braun
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Heather L. Braun
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611475630

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

The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale: From Gothic Ghosts to Victorian Vamps explores the femme fatale’s careerin 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 : Roxanne Harde,Lydia Kokkola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351588553

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The Embodied Child by Roxanne Harde,Lydia Kokkola Pdf

The Embodied Child: Readings in Children’s Literature and Culture brings together essays that offer compelling analyses of children’s bodies as they read and are read, as they interact with literature and other cultural artifacts, and as they are constructed in literature and popular culture. The chapters examine the ideology behind the cultural constructions of the child’s body and the impact they have on society, and how the child’s body becomes a carrier of cultural ideology within the cultural imagination. They also consider the portrayal of children’s bodies in terms of the seeming dichotomies between healthy-vs-unhealthy bodies as well as able-bodied-vs-disabled, and examines flesh-and-blood bodies that engage with literary texts and other media. The contributors bring perspectives from anthropology, communication, education, literary criticism, cultural studies, philosophy, physical education, and religious studies. With wide and astute coverage of disparate literary and cultural texts, and lively scholarly discussions in the introductions to the collection and to each section, this book makes a long-needed contribution to discussions of the body and the child.

Author : Kari Nixon,Lorenzo Servitje
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137521415

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Endemic by Kari Nixon,Lorenzo Servitje Pdf

This book develops a new multimodal theoretical model of contagion for interdisciplinary scholars, featuring contributions from influential scholars spanning the fields of medical humanities, philosophy, political science, media studies, technoculture, literature, and bioethics. Exploring the nexus of contagion's metaphorical and material aspects, this volume contends that contagiousness in its digital, metaphorical, and biological forms is a pervasively endemic condition in our contemporary moment. The chapters explore both endemicity itself and how epidemic discourse has become endemic to processes of social construction. Designed to simultaneously prime those new to the discourse of humanistic perspectives of contagion, complicate issues of interest to seasoned scholars of science and technology studies, and add new topics for debate and inquiry in the field of bioethics, Endemic will be of wide interest for researchers and educators.

Author : Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781683931478

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The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge Pdf

The Lady on the Drawingroom Floor with Selected Poetry and Prose, by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, seeks to reclaim Coleridge’s reputation as a novelist, poet, critic, and educator by featuring familiar works alongside unpublished or out-of-print works. This collection includes a substantial introduction to Coleridge, analyzing her life and legacy; the whole of Coleridge’s final published novel; and a selection of important poems, short stories, essays, and letters. This discussion of her career invites the reader to consider her poetry and other writing alongside the novel that early critics called her most reflective and mature. In restoring the integrity of Coleridge’s literary canon, this volume offers new ways of understanding the complexities of an innovative Victorian writer who deserves to be better known and featured more prominently in anthologies and college courses. This collection is intended to introduce scholars, undergraduate and graduate students, and the general reading public to Coleridge’s specific and considerable contributions to late-Victorian literature.

Author : Paula Nuttall,Geoffrey Nuttall,Michael Kwakkelstein
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004434615

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Filippino Lippi by Paula Nuttall,Geoffrey Nuttall,Michael Kwakkelstein Pdf

Filippino Lippi (1457–1504), although one of the most original and gifted artists of the Florentine renaissance, has attracted less scholarly attention than his father Fra Filippo Lippi or his master Botticelli, and very little has been published on him in English. This book, authored by leading Renaissance art historians, covers diverse aspects of Filippino Lippi’s art: his role in Botticelli’s workshop; his Lucchese patrons; his responses to Netherlandish painting; portraits; space and temporality; the restoration of the Strozzi Chapel in Santa Maria Novella; his immediate artistic legacy; and, finally, his nineteenth-century critical reception. The fourteen chapters in this volume were originally presented at the international conference Filippino Lippi: Beauty, Invention and Intelligence, held at the Dutch University Institute (NIKI) in Florence in 2017. See inside the book.

Author : David Greven
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813951034

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All the Devils Are Here by David Greven Pdf

The English literary influence on classic American novelists’ depictions of gender, sexuality, and race With All the Devils Are Here, the literary scholar David Greven makes a signal contribution to the growing list of studies dedicated to tracing threads of literary influence. Herman Melville’s, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, and James Fenimore Cooper’s uses of Shakespeare and Milton, he finds, reflect not just an intertextual relationship between American Romanticism and the English tradition but also an ongoing engagement with gender and sexual politics. Greven limns the effect of Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing on Hawthorne’s exploration of patriarchy, and he shows how misogyny in King Lear informed Melville’s evocation of “the step-mother world” of orphaned men in Moby-Dick. Throughout, Greven focuses particularly on male authors’ treatment of femininity, arguing that the figure of woman functions for them as a multivalent signifier for artistic expression. Ultimately, Greven demonstrates the ambitions of these writers to comment on the history of the Western tradition and the future of art from their unique positions as Americans.

Author : Caroline Blyth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567680013

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Reimagining Delilah’s Afterlives as Femme Fatale by Caroline Blyth Pdf

The story of Samson and Delilah in Judges 16 has been studied and retold over the centuries by biblical interpreters, artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers. Within these scholarly and cultural retellings, Delilah is frequently fashioned as the quintessential femme fatale - the shamelessly seductive 'fatal woman' whose sexual treachery ultimately leads to Samson's downfall. Yet these ubiquitous portrayals of Delilah as femme fatale tend to eclipse the many other viable readings of her character that lie, underexplored, within the ambiguity-laden narrative of Judges 16 - interpretations that offer alternative and more sympathetic portrayals of her biblical persona. In Reimagining Delilah's Afterlives as Femme Fatale, Caroline Blyth guides readers through an in-depth exploration of Delilah's afterlives as femme fatale in both biblical interpretation and popular culture, tracing the social and historical factors that may have inspired them. She then considers alternative afterlives for Delilah's character, using as inspiration both the Judges 16 narrative and a number of cultural texts which deconstruct traditional understandings of the femme fatale, thereby inviting readers to view this iconic biblical character in new and fascinating lights.

Author : Merve Günday
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040040294

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Reading Keats’s Poetry by Merve Günday Pdf

This book claims that Keats’s poetry is a reaction against the discourse of modernity which traumatized the human subject by creating a divide between human and nature, subject and object. It argues that by transcending this divide and acknowledging the agency of both subject and object, Keats makes an ideological statement and offers a new site of existence or relationality to readers. This site also implies a response to the accusations that the Romantics were not interested in the realities of their time. What Keats does is to give an aestheticized response to the hardcore facts of his time. Departing from previous studies due to its emphasis on subjectivity and relationality, the book discusses Keats with regard to post/non-anthropocentric, alternative subject positions and subject-object relations in his “Ode to a Nightingale,” “In drear nighted December,” “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil,” “Lamia,” “La Belle Dame sans Mercy,” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Drawing on Lacanian and Braidottian epistemologies in its discussion of the intricacy between the imaginary and the symbolic, the irruption of the psychotic into the symbolic, and the agency of the object on the subject in Keats’s poetry, the book suggests that the inner dynamics of both the subject and the object acquire agency, which shatters Oneness and totality assumed in the Cartesian self.

Author : Zethu Matebeni,Surya Monro,Vasu Reddy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315406725

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Queer in Africa by Zethu Matebeni,Surya Monro,Vasu Reddy Pdf

African sexualities are dynamic, multi-faceted and resilient. However, people with non-heterosexual sexualities and gender variant identities are often involved in struggles for survival, self-definition, and erotic rights. Queer in Africa forms an entry point for understanding the vulnerabilities of queer Africans as shaped by social, cultural and political processes, aiming to provide innovative insights about contentious disagreements over their lives. The volume mediates Southern and Northern scholarship, directing attention toward African-centred beliefs made accessible to a wide audience. Key concerns such as identity construction and the intersections between different social forces (such as nationalist traditionalism and sexualities) are addressed via engaging chapters; some empirically based and others providing critical cultural analysis. Highly interdisciplinary in nature, Queer in Africa provides a key resource for students, academics, and activists concerned with the international support of sex and gender diversity. It will appeal to those interested in fields such as anthropology, film studies, literary studies, political science, public health, sociology, and socio-legal studies.

Author : Jennifer Hedgecock
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Arts
ISBN : UIUC:30112124982791

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مجلة كلية الآداب by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Universities and colleges
ISBN : UOM:39015016316112

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British Universities' Guide to Graduate Study by Anonim Pdf

Author : Virginia Blain,Patricia Clements,Isobel Grundy
Publisher : London : B.T. Batsford
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106009776540

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The Feminist Companion to Literature in English by Virginia Blain,Patricia Clements,Isobel Grundy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015004253822

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Books for College Libraries: Language and literature by Anonim Pdf