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Author Craciun, Adriana, 1967-

Title Fatal women of Romanticism / Adriana Craciun.

Publication Info. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54
Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale; CHAPTER 2 Violence against difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and women's strength; CHAPTER 3 "The aristocracy of genius": Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette; CHAPTER 4 Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's Gothic bodies; CHAPTER 5 "In seraph strains, unpitying, to destroy": Anne Bannerman's femmes fatales.
Summary Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s.
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Subject English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
English literature -- Women authors.
Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Women and literature.
Great Britain.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
English literature.
Femmes fatales in literature.
Femmes fatales in literature.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
Romanticism.
Women in literature.
Women in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1790-1830
1800 - 1899
Indexed Term Electronic books
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online-Publikation.
Other Form: Print version: Craciun, Adriana, 1967- Fatal women of Romanticism. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521816688 (DLC) 2002067366 (OCoLC)49664533
ISBN 051107395X (electronic book)
9780511073953 (electronic book)
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0521816688
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9780511073854
0511120826 (electronic book)
9780511120824 (electronic book)
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