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

by RebeccaStott (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $202.67

  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.