Femme fatale in Victorian literature
Subtitle: the danger and the sexual threat
By: Jennifer Hedgecock.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Youngstown, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604975185
Subjects: Femmes fatales in literature.; English fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Women in literature.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Middle class women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Feminism and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Feminism in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: The femme fatale masquerading beyond fallenness; value: "The old writing on the wall" : Dickens' fatal woman Rosa Dartle; value: The cultural phenomenon of the mid-Victorian femme fatale; value: Social conditions of the Victorian woman : the emergence of the femme fatale in sensation fiction; value: Social class anxieites and gender definition in Lady Audley's secret; value: Sexual danger and the threat of the femme fatale in Armadale; value: Fallen or fatal? Feminine representation of Hardy's Tess.