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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Craciun, Adriana, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Geschichte 1790-1830.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Femmes fatales in literature.
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Women in literature.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Littérature anglaise > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Romantisme > Grande-Bretagne.
Femmes dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature.
English literature > Women authors.
Romanticism.
Women and literature.
Literatur
Romantik
Femme fatale
Great Britain.
Englisch.
Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online-Publikation.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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