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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quinn, Patrick J., 1946- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Newcastle upon Tyne [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Subjects:
Femmes fatales in literature.
Women in literature.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Online Access:
EBSCO eBooks: 2015 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2015 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
Patriarchy in Eclipse: The Femme Fatale and the New Woman in American Literature and Culture 1870-1920
Format: Electronic eBook
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.