The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death

ISBN-13: 9780333556122 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 257 str.

Rebecca Stott

Opis

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-siecle. 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."

Recenzje

'This is an impressively intelligent work of investigation, which makes good use of late Victorian imperial history and criminology.' - Chris Baldick, Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - Preface - Acknowledgements - Historical Perspectives - Theoretical Perspectives - Dracula: A Social Purity Crusade - Rider Haggard's Black Widow - The Shadowy Embrace: Conrad - 'Something More to be Said': Hardy's Tess - Afterwords - Endnotes - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

REBECCA STOTT