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