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The hero of the story is a demonic lover -- dark, handsome, mysterious, and dangerously seductive. The heroine -- beautiful, and innocent -- willingly becomes his victim and is destroyed by him. This story of demon-lover and victim, always charged with passion, has been told over and over, from Greek mythology through contemporary fiction and films. Demon-Lovers and Their Victims in British Fiction is the first historical and structural exploration of the demon-lover motif, with emphasis on major works of British fiction from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries; it will interes

English literature --- Thematology --- Demonology in literature --- English fiction --- Seduction in literature --- Démonologie dans la littérature --- Roman anglais --- Séduction dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Démonologie dans la littérature --- Séduction dans la littérature --- Sex in literature. --- Evil in literature. --- Women in literature. --- Victims in literature. --- Seduction in literature. --- Demonology in literature. --- Woman (Christian theology) in literature --- Women in drama --- Women in poetry --- Evil in literature --- Good in literature --- History and criticism. --- Good and evil in literature.