The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death (Women&quote;s Studies at York Series)

The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death (Women"e;s Studies at York Series)

by RebeccaStott (Author)

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The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy's Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 20 Nov 1992

ISBN 10: 0333556127
ISBN 13: 9780333556122