The woman behind the witch's mask
Subtitle: the evolution of the female villain in literature from Shakespeare to the present
By: by Heather Gina Cole.
Published: 2004
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters -- Women; Lillo, George, -- 1693-1739 -- Characters -- Women; Thackeray, William Makepeace, -- 1811-1863 -- Characters -- Women; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Women; Collins, Wilkie, -- 1824-1889 -- Characters -- Women; Ibsen, Henrik, -- 1828-1906 -- Characters -- Women; Haggard, H. Rider -- 1856-1925 -- Characters -- Women; Hemingway, Ernest, -- 1899-1961 -- Characters -- Women; Steinbeck, John, -- 1902-1968 -- Characters -- Women; Du Maurier, Daphne, -- Dame, -- 1907-1989 -- Characters -- Women; Atwood, Margaret, -- 1939- -- Characters -- Women; English literature -- History and criticism; Women in literature; Females in literature; Villains in literature -- Women; Feminist literary criticism; Feminist criticism; Sexism and literature; Sex role in literature; Violence in women -- In literature; Femmes fatales in literature
Other titles: Evolution of the female villain in literature from Shakespeare to the present
Notes: Typescript (photocopy)

Illustrated t.p.

"This thesis is a study of the female villain in works of literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth century."--p. iii.

Thesis (Honors in English)--Miami University, 2004

Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-92)
Table of contents: Introduction; "Unsex me here!:" ambition becomes Lady Macbeth; A symbol of mercantilist discord: Millwood in the London merchant; The Demon in the house: Victorian villainesses; An angel rotting in the house: Great Expectations; "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed:" the ultimate femme fatale; Desiring something more: Ibsen's Hedda Gabler; A murderous female in Hemingway's short fiction; Rebecca: a villain absent from the text; A motiveless monster: Cathy in East of Eden; Embracing the intrinsic: Zenia in The robber bride; "Playing all roles"; Works cited.