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The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death

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The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death
The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death

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The Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale: The Kiss of Death

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This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late nineteenth-century British culture. As a stereotype she has been 'fabricated', that is to say constructed as a 'figure in the carpet' of the fin-de-siècle. The book argues that Rider Haggard's She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed , Bram Stoker's female vampires and Conrad's destructive Malayan or African women, even Hardy's Tess , are all caught up in a series of late nineteenth-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

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