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

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

by R. Stott
The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death

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

by R. Stott

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333556122
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 11/20/1992
Series: Women's Studies at York Series
Edition description: 1992
Pages: 257
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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
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