The Femme Fatale in American Literature

Sasa (English literature, Hashemite U., Jordan) looks at the character of The Dangerous Woman in three novels written at the height of the American naturalistic movement. Frank Norris' McTeague, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and Kate Chopin's The Awakening, she argues, demonstrate how the ancient trope was fabricated and reconstructed to meet the specific needs of the 19th-century literary movement. Annotation 穢2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)