Canal Town by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Focusing on the late 19th and early 20th century obsession with woman as femme fatale, this book looks at beliefs about women's bodies and sexuality. Dancer Maud Allan came to embody the image of the femme fatale. In 1918 she brought a libel case against an MP who accused her in print of lesbianism. There was a belief in some circles that New Women like Maud were a cause of the war. To others, she and her kind were a sinister fifth column. Allan, fondling on stage the severed head of John the Baptist whose death she had demanded as her prize for dancing, expressed elements of sexual perversion, including sadism, necrophilia and incest, that were truly terrifying to Edwardian society. This is a close examination of attitudes to women in the Belle Epoque and beyond.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780815602286 |
| ISBN 10 | 0815602286 |
| Title | Canal Town |
| Author | Samuel Hopkins Adams |
| Series | New York Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Syracuse University Press |
| Year published | 1988-11-30 |
| Number of pages | 476 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |