The femme fatale as a nineteenth-century motif has been
well-researched and a whole body of critical literature attests to
her haunting fascination for literary critics. This study
interrogates literary definitions of the femme fatale and
challenges the notion that the femme fatale is a post-Romantic,
late nineteenth-century type. Whilst arguing for a more precise
discrimination, it considers the earlier emergence of the motif in
English Romanticism and focuses on a period where femmes fatales do
not appear with marked frequency, but where cultural history
emphasises their quality. Tracing such contemporary
contextualisations, this study argues for the existence of a
multiplicity of different types of fatal women even in Romanticism
and for their continuous line of development through to the
pervasive motif of the femme fatale in decadent writing.
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