Representation of Femme Fatales in Gothic and Romantic Writings at the End of the 18th century

Pop Zarieva, Natalija and Kostova, Kristina and Krsteva, Marija (2021) Representation of Femme Fatales in Gothic and Romantic Writings at the End of the 18th century. Yearbook of the Faculty of Philology, University Goce Delcev, Stip, 12 (17). pp. 73-82. ISSN 1857-7059

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Abstract

This paper analysis two Gothic ballads at the end of the 18th century with respect to the depiction of their female characters: Matthew Lewis’s The Bleeding Nun and Anne Bannerman’s The Dark Ladie. It focuses on the blending of the femme fatale characteristics with vampiric traits, explores the way these have been incorporated in the text and the meaning which they impose on the specific texts. The destruction to the male protagonist, with whom they are usually in a romantic relationship, is the basic idea that
underlies these femme fatales, which as this paper argues, are imbued with vampiric traits. The paper offers an examination of the role of the vampiric in the respective ballads while tying them to the first Romantic treatment of the femme fatale in Coleridge’s Christabel, commonly not referred to as a vampire. The vampiric has been depicted here as a transmittable state which creates a new ‘vampire’, a trope that will evolve in vampiric literature a century later.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Natalija Pop Zarieva
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2023 13:18
Last Modified:	07 Mar 2023 13:18
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/31502

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