Coleridge y la creación de la femme fatale en la poesía del siglo XIX

Abstract

Coleridge's poetry is seminal in the creation of women that can be included within the stereotype of the femme fatale. This is a peculiarly singular fact since its height took place nearly a hundred years later, in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Most of the explanations put forward for the proliferation of this femenine type are based on the social conditions of the period, obviously different from those of the last years of the previous century. Another kind of explanation seems to be required in Coleridge's case. The possibility of a link between the poet's creativity and his problems of gender identity is proposed in this paper.