Fatal Women of RomanticismCambridge University Press, 2002 M12 12 - 328 pages Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers in the Romantic period. 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. She discusses the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. She also engages with current research on the history of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding the status of 'woman' as a sex. |
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... poetry , which some of them famously transformed , but in many modes of writing . The expansion of publishing ... poetic form , content and style by the Lake School and the Cockney School . Outside Shakespeare studies , probably no body ...
... poetry , which some of them famously transformed , but in many modes of writing . The expansion of publishing ... poetic form , content and style by the Lake School and the Cockney School . Outside Shakespeare studies , probably no body ...
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... poetry discussed in chapter 5 also demonstrate that women writers have contributed to , not merely critiqued , the fatal woman tradition in Romanticism , and that in some cases they even developed a poetic identity of the poet as ...
... poetry discussed in chapter 5 also demonstrate that women writers have contributed to , not merely critiqued , the fatal woman tradition in Romanticism , and that in some cases they even developed a poetic identity of the poet as ...
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... poet herself ) who pos- sessed " transcendent genius " and dared to enter the public sphere on distinctly feminine ... poetry , figures such as the mer- maid , the revenant , and the prophetess emerge as deadly “ women ” poets whose ...
... poet herself ) who pos- sessed " transcendent genius " and dared to enter the public sphere on distinctly feminine ... poetry , figures such as the mer- maid , the revenant , and the prophetess emerge as deadly “ women ” poets whose ...
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... poetry also challenges the Roman- tic idealism prevalent amongst male predecessors such as Wordsworth and Keats . Her unexamined numerous fatal women ( often supernatural figures such as mermaids , phantoms , and enchantresses ) offer ...
... poetry also challenges the Roman- tic idealism prevalent amongst male predecessors such as Wordsworth and Keats . Her unexamined numerous fatal women ( often supernatural figures such as mermaids , phantoms , and enchantresses ) offer ...
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Contents
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Mary Lamb femme fatale | 21 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Mary Robinson and womens strength | 47 |
Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette | 76 |
Charlotte Dacres Gothic bodies | 110 |
Anne Bannermans femmes fatales | 156 |
Letitia Landons philosophy of decomposition | 195 |
Notes | 251 |
Bibliography | 291 |
Index | 319 |
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