The femme fatale in Victorian literature : the danger and the sexual threat /
Hedgecock, Jennifer.
Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-224) and index.
The femme fatale masquerading beyond fallenness -- "The old writing on the wall" : Dickens' fatal woman Rosa Dartle -- The cultural phenomenon of the mid-Victorian femme fatale -- Social class anxieties and gender definition in Lady Audley's secret -- Sexual danger and the threat of the femme fatale in Armadale -- Fallen or fatal? Feminine representation of Hardy's Tess -- The image of the femme fatale and emergence of the new woman.
Femmes fatales in literature.
English fiction
Women in literature.
Women
Middle class women
Feminism and literature
Feminism in literature.