The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale

The Kiss of Death

von R. Stott

257 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-siècle. The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy's Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Gruppen
• ISBN: 9780333669600
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.11.1992
• Größe: 235 x 155 mm
• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK