Soft-Shed Kisses: Re-Visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443847803)

The femme fatale appears with unceasing regularity in the texts of major poets of the nineteenth century. She symbolises an intractable mystery, a refusal to be defined and a fierce attempt to exist outside the established gender system. Soft-Shed Kisses: Re-visioning the Femme Fatale in English Poetry of the 19th Century interrogates the construction and use of the fatal woman motif in the poetry of canonical male writers of the times, both Romantic and Victorian. Subsequent chapters investigate a variety of poems by John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Charles Algernon Swinburne in which the femme fatale surfaces as the most important character. Close-readings of poetry are enriched by an examination of the same motif in visual art, set against the vivid cultural background of the Victorian era.

Author: Å. Uczyå"ska-Hoå'dys Maå'gorzata
ISBN-10: 1443847801
ISBN-13: 9781443847803
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2013
Pages: 340
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.90w x 1.20d