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Table of Contents
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Foreword |
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Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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Introduction |
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Chapter 1: The Femme Fatale Masquerading beyond Fallenness |
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Chapter 2: “The Old Writing on the Wall”: Dickens’ Fatal Woman Rosa Dartle |
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Chapter 3: The Cultural Phenomenon of the Mid-Victorian Femme Fatale |
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Social Conditions of the Victorian Woman |
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Midcentury Debate on the Representation of the Victorian Woman |
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The Emergence of the Femme Fatale in Sensation Fiction |
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Chapter 4: Social Class Anxieties and Gender Definition in Lady Audley’s Secret |
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Chapter 5: Sexual Danger and the Threat of the Femme Fatale in Armadale |
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The Villainous Woman and the Domestic Ideal |