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Chapter 4: “A Language Which Nobody Understood:” Edna Pontellier as Femme Fatale in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening |
The Imprisonment of Edna |
Edna Breaks Free |
McTeague, Sister Carrie, The Awakening: Trina, Carrie, and Edna |
Edna“s Suicide |
Chapter 5: “It Had Begun, a New Life for Helga Crane:” Helga Crane as Femme Fatale in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand |
Twentieth-Century American Naturalism |
The Plight of the Tragic Mulatto Figure |
Helga Crane“s Liberation |
Chapter 6: Examples of Other Femmes Fatales in American Naturalism |
Primary Bibliography |
Secondary Bibliography |
Index |