Soft-shed kisses : re-visioning the femme fatale in English poetry of the 19th century / by Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Łuczyńska-Hołdys, Małgorzata.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Femmes fatales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st Edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. -

Contents:

Intro

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE

CHAPTER TWO

CHAPTER THREE

CHAPTER FOUR

CHAPTER FIVE

CONCLUSIONS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 15, 2013).

ISBN:

1-4438-5100-0

OCLC:

855505195