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The Fabrication of the Late Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death

By Rebecca Stott

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
1992
ISBN
0333556127, 9780333556122
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
25 MB (26188921 bytes)
Series
Women's Studies at York/Macmillan
Pages
280\283
Time added
2014-01-27 10:26:36

Description

'This is an impressively intelligent work of investigation, which makes good use of late Victorian imperial history and criminology' - Chris Baldick, TLS This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late 19th-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 19th-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

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