Fatal Women of Romanticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521816687)

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.

Author: Adriana Craciun
ISBN-10: 0521816688
ISBN-13: 9780521816687
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2002
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.49lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.92w x 0.97d