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Item Details
Title:
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THE FABRICATION OF THE LATE VICTORIAN FEMME FATALE
THE KISS OF DEATH |
By: |
Rebecca Stott |
Format: |
Paperback |
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£44.00 |
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ISBN 10: |
0333669606 |
ISBN 13: |
9780333669600 |
Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
20 November, 1992 |
Series: |
Women's Studies at York Series |
Pages: |
273 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
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. |
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biography |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
Returns: |
Returnable |
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