Patriarchy in eclipse
Subtitle: the femme fatale and the new woman in American literature and culture 1870-1920
By: by Patrick J. Quinn
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781443876513
Subjects: Femmes fatales in literature; Women in literature; American literature; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: French background; title: English background; title: The early stages : Reizenstein, James, Hearn and Vedder; title: Francis Saltus : poetry and the American femme fatale; title: Oscar Wilde's American visit and William Dean Howells : shades of the new woman; title: America's first decadent novelist : Edgar Saltus; title: The new college woman and male intellectual supremacy; title: The bohemian woman : a threat to male supremacy; title: The poetry of Stuart Merrill : the lure of the femme fatale; title: The femme fatale in American painting; title: The Columbian exhibition of 1893 : the not so-white city; title: The American stage : the strange case of Olga Nethersole; title: The American opera; title: Oscar Weininger's evolutionary argument; title: Revolting American women; title: Immoral fiction : bad girls make bad examples; title: The Gibson girl, the bicycle, and bloomers; title: The new woman's dilemma; title: Hagar Revelly survives in a man's world; title: The femme fatale as destroyer : Sylvester Viereck's poetry; title: The femme fatale on the red velvet swing; title: Thwarting the male genius; title: Conclusion : The last American decadent novel.