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'This is an impressively intelligent work of investigation, which makes good use of late Victorian imperial history and criminology' - Chris Baldick, TLS This book examines the rise of the femme fatale as a prominant fictional type in late 19th-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-siecle. 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 19th-century contexts: biological determinism, imperialism, race, theories about female sexuality, degeneration and evolutionary theory.

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• Full title: Fabrication of the Late-Victorian Femme Fatale
• Subtitle: The Kiss of Death
• Author: Rebecca Stott
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 257
• EAN: 9780333556122
• ISBN: 0333556127
• ID: 04595321
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 510 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. November 1992

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