Patriarchy in eclipse : : the femme fatale and the new woman in American literature and culture, 1870-1920 / Patrick J. Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Patrick J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Femmes fatales in literature.

Women in literature.

American literature--19th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (228 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

There can be little doubt that after the American Civil War, a significant number of largely urban American women's relationships with men began to change. This transition was brought about through many changing conditions in American society that were predicated by socio-economic considerations such as female education, large scale immigration from Europe which challenged traditional American values, the onset of large scale consumerism, and the erosion of the narrow religious moralism which previously restricted the female role in a burgeoning urban landscape. This book examines one particul

Contents:

French background

English background

The early stages : Reizenstein, James, Hearn and Vedder

Francis Saltus : poetry and the American femme fatale

Oscar Wilde's American visit and William Dean Howells : shades of the new woman

America's first decadent novelist : Edgar Saltus

The new college woman and male intellectual supremacy

The bohemian woman : a threat to male supremacy

The poetry of Stuart Merrill : the lure of the femme fatale

The femme fatale in American painting

The Columbian exhibition of 1893 : the not so-white city

The American stage : the strange case of Olga Nethersole

The American opera

Oscar Weininger's evolutionary argument

Revolting American women

Immoral fiction : bad girls make bad examples

The Gibson girl, the bicycle, and bloomers

The new woman's dilemma

Hagar Revelly survives in a man's world

The femme fatale as destroyer : Sylvester Viereck's poetry

The femme fatale on the red velvet swing

Thwarting the male genius

Conclusion : The last American decadent novel.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 16, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8428-6

OCLC:

924632129