“Delusive beauty”: femmes fatales in English Romanticism

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“Delusive beauty”: femmes fatales in English Romanticism

Name: “Delusive beauty”: femmes fatales in English Romanticism
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Written by Andrea Rummel, Thomas Becker and Uwe Baumann

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The femme fatale as a nineteenth-century motif has been well-researched and a whole body of critical literature attests to her haunting fascination for literary critics. This study interrogates literary definitions of the femme fatale and challenges the notion that the femme fatale is a “post-Romantic”, late nineteenth-century type. Whilst arguing for a more precise discrimination, it considers the earlier emergence of the motif in English Romanticism and focuses on a period where femmes fatales do not appear with marked frequency, but where cultural history emphasises their quality. Tracing such contemporary contextualisations, this study argues for the existence of a multiplicity of different types of fatal women even in Romanticism and for their continuous line of development through to the pervasive motif of the femme fatale in decadent writing.

Andrea Rummel teaches English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Gießen, Germany. She studied English and International Law at the universities of Bonn, Germany, and Oviedo, Spain. Femmes fatales in English Romanticism is her doctoral thesis.

ISBN-13: 9783899715200
Publisher: V&R unipress
Imprint: Gazelle Books
Publication date: 22 October 2008
Format: Hardback
Pages: 224
Dimensions: 240 x 158 mm
Illustrations: mit 5 Abb.
Language: English