Title Fatal women of Romanticism / Adriana Craciun.

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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

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Description	1 online resource (xviii, 328 pages) : illustrations.
Series	Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54
	Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 54.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-318) and index.
Note	Print version record.
Contents	Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 The subject of violence: Mary Lamb, femme fatale; CHAPTER 2 Violence against difference: Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Robinson, and women's strength; CHAPTER 3 "The aristocracy of genius": Mary Robinson and Marie Antoinette; CHAPTER 4 Unnatural, unsexed, undead: Charlotte Dacre's Gothic bodies; CHAPTER 5 "In seraph strains, unpitying, to destroy": Anne Bannerman's femmes fatales.
Summary	Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic identities and informed 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.
Subject	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Femmes fatales in literature.
	Romanticism -- Great Britain.
	Women in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
	Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Femmes fatales in literature.
	Romanticism -- Great Britain.
	Women in literature.
	English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
	English literature. (OCoLC)fst00911989
	English literature -- Women authors. (OCoLC)fst00912218
	Femmes fatales in literature. (OCoLC)fst00922844
	Romanticism. (OCoLC)fst01100133
	Women and literature. (OCoLC)fst01177093
	Women in literature. (OCoLC)fst01177912
	Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
	Literatur.
	Femme fatale.
	Romantik.
	Englisch.
Chronological Term	Geschichte 1790-1830
	1800 - 1899
Indexed Term	Electronic books
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Online-Publikation.
Other Form:	Print version: Craciun, Adriana, 1967- Fatal women of Romanticism. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521816688 (DLC) 2002067366 (OCoLC)49664533
ISBN	051107395X (electronic bk.)
	9780511073953 (electronic bk.)
	0511120826 (electronic bk.)
	9780511120824 (electronic bk.)

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