The femme fatale in Victorian literature
Subtitle: the sexual threat and danger
By: Jennifer Hedgecock.
Publisher: Cambria Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Youngstown, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
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: title: The femme fatale masquerading beyond fallenness; title: "The old writing on the wall" : Dickens' fatal woman Rosa Dartle; title: The cultural phenomenon of the mid-Victorian femme fatale; title: Social conditions of the Victorian woman : the emergence of the femme fatale in sensation fiction; title: Social class anxieites and gender definition in Lady Audley's secret; title: Sexual danger and the threat of the femme fatale in Armadale; title: Fallen or fatal? Feminine representation of Hardy's Tess.