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Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Cambria Press
"examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed
Language: en
Pages: 177
Pages: 177
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
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
Language: en
Pages: 257
Pages: 257
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: MacMillan
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
Language: en
Pages: 340
Pages: 340
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-26 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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
Language: en
Pages: 470
Pages: 470
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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