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Fatal women of Romanticism /

Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Craciun, Adriana, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Colección:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale; CHAPTER 2 Violence against difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and women's strength; CHAPTER 3 "The aristocracy of genius": Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette; CHAPTER 4 Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's Gothic bodies; CHAPTER 5 "In seraph strains, unpitying, to destroy": Anne Bannerman's femmes fatales.