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Patriarchy in eclipse : the femme fatale and the new woman in American literature and culture, 1870-1920 /
There can be little doubt that after the American Civil War, a significant number of largely urban American women's relationships with men began to change. This transition was brought about through many changing conditions in American society that were predicated by socio-economic consideration...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- French background
- English background
- The early stages : Reizenstein, James, Hearn and Vedder
- Francis Saltus : poetry and the American femme fatale
- Oscar Wilde's American visit and William Dean Howells : shades of the new woman
- America's first decadent novelist : Edgar Saltus
- The new college woman and male intellectual supremacy
- The bohemian woman : a threat to male supremacy
- The poetry of Stuart Merrill : the lure of the femme fatale
- The femme fatale in American painting
- The Columbian exhibition of 1893 : the not so-white city
- The American stage : the strange case of Olga Nethersole
- The American opera
- Oscar Weininger's evolutionary argument
- Revolting American women
- Immoral fiction : bad girls make bad examples
- The Gibson girl, the bicycle, and bloomers
- The new woman's dilemma
- Hagar Revelly survives in a man's world
- The femme fatale as destroyer : Sylvester Viereck's poetry
- The femme fatale on the red velvet swing
- Thwarting the male genius
- Conclusion : The last American decadent novel.