Contents
Introduction: Literary Form and the Nineteenth-Century Femme
Fatal
Chapter 1: The Gothic Ballad and the Supernatural Femme Fatal
Chapter 2: The Realist Novel and the Romanticized Femme Fatal
Chapter 3: From Sensation Novel to Vampire Tale: The Erotic Femme
Fatal
Chapter 4: Decsdence, Self-Awareness, and the Decline of the Femme
Fatal
Conclusion: Reprising the Femme Fatal
Heather L. Braun is an assistant professor of English at Macon State College in Georgia. She received her Ph.D. in English from Boston College, her M.A. from Claremont University, and her B.A. from Lafayette College.
Heather Braun opens her book-length study of the femme fatale in
British literature by observing that this figure is 'at once
everywhere yet difficult to pin down.' Braun's focus on the
'varying effects of literary form on ideological construction of
the femme fatale'—for instance, her argument about the way in which
the interplay between the ballad form and other-worldly
enchantresses exposes and constructs romantic thinking about ideals
of femininity and the fatality of desire—is certainly
refreshing.
*English Literature In Transition 1880-1920*
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