| Fatal Women of Romanticism Contributor(s): Craciun, Adriana (Author) |
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ISBN: 052111182X ISBN-13: 9780521111829 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $44.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2009 Annotation: Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 820.935 |
| Lexile Measure: 1710 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Physical Information: 0.79" H x 6" W x 9" (1.14 lbs) 352 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and affected 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 and discusses the work of such well-known figures as Mary Wollstonecraft, as well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. This examination of women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical contexts exposes a far-ranging debate on sexual difference. |
Contributor Bio(s): Craciun, Adriana: - Adriana Craciun is Lecturer in English and Director of the Centre for Byron Studies at the University of Nottingham. She is the editor of Zofloya, or the Moor (1997) and A Routledge Literary Sourcebook for Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman (2002), and co-editor of Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution (2001). |