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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... social construction of their bodies , makes resistance and change much more complex and problematic than Foucault seems to allow . ” But , of course , there are many Foucaults , as there are many feminisms , and a tradition of ...
... social construction of their bodies , makes resistance and change much more complex and problematic than Foucault seems to allow . ” But , of course , there are many Foucaults , as there are many feminisms , and a tradition of ...
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... social relations ) , and that fem- inist criticism should seek to show how women as a class , throughout history , do not or should not replicate systems of " masculinist " power and violence . My focus on violent and fatal women in ...
... social relations ) , and that fem- inist criticism should seek to show how women as a class , throughout history , do not or should not replicate systems of " masculinist " power and violence . My focus on violent and fatal women in ...
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... social and public roles . Their polemical writings were practical attempts to enfranchise women in what they rightly perceived as an increasingly masculinized public sphere . Such early feminist efforts to question the nature of women's ...
... social and public roles . Their polemical writings were practical attempts to enfranchise women in what they rightly perceived as an increasingly masculinized public sphere . Such early feminist efforts to question the nature of women's ...
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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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