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Author:

Quinn, Patrick J., 1946- author.

Title:

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

Publisher:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 218 pages ; 21 cm

Subject:

Femmes fatales in literature.
Women in literature.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-208) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1443876518
9781443876513

OCLC:

(OCoLC)912237234

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)