Title Fatal women of Romanticism / Adriana Craciun

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54 Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54. 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 Summary 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 from the 1790s through the 1830s Analysis Electronic books Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index Notes Print version record Subject 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. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. 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. English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. English literature English literature -- Women authors Femmes fatales in literature Romanticism Women and literature Women in literature Literatur Romantik Femme fatale Great Britain Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Online-Publikation. Form Electronic book ISBN 051107395X 9780511073953 9780521816687 0521816688 0511073852 9780511073854 0511120826 9780511120824 1280161418 9781280161414 9786610161416 6610161410 9780511484155 0511484151 0511305397 9780511305399

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