Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout
the works of women writers in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun
demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or fatal women played
an important role in the development of Romantic women's poetic
identities and informed their exploration of issues surrounding the
body, sexuality and politics. Craciun covers a wide range of
writers and genres from the 1790s through the 1830s. She discusses
the work of well-known figures including Mary Wollstonecraft, as
well as lesser-known writers like Anne Bannerman. By examining
women writers' fatal women in historical, political and medical
contexts, Craciun uncovers a far-ranging debate on sexual
difference. She also engages with current research on the history
of the body and sexuality, providing an important historical
precedent for modern feminist theory's ongoing dilemma regarding
the status of 'woman' as a sex.
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