The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature

The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 9781604975185
ISBN-13 : 1604975180
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Book Synopsis The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature by : Jennifer Hedgecock

Download or read book The Femme Fatale in Victorian Literature written by Jennifer Hedgecock and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "examines the changing social and economic status of women from the 1860s through the 1880s, and rejects the stereotypical mid-Victorian femme fatale portrayed by conservative ideologues critiquing popular fiction by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Honore de Balzac, and William Makepeace Thackeray. In these book reviews, the female protagonist is simply minimized to a dangerous woman. Refuting this one-dimensional characterization, this book argues that the femme fatale comes to represent the real-life struggles of the middle-class Victorian woman who overcomes major adversities such as poverty, abusive husbands, abandonment, single parenthood, limited job opportunities, the criminal underworld, and Victorian society's harsh invective against her." --publisher description.


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