The Femme Fatale Overview

added by Elizabeth Lee '97, Brown University

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Introduction

• Ideas of female sexuality as femme fatale
• Victorian theories of sex and sexuality

Depictions

• Artwork
  • Aubrey Beardsley
  • Edward Burne-Jones
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Circe
• The femme fatale as object
• Salome

Literary Relations

• Lady Lilith
• Salomé

Last modified 26 October 2004