Sex and Death in Victorian Literature is a landmark collection of 13 previously unpublished essays on nineteenth-century British poetry, fiction and prose by the most important English and American scholars in the field. The volume observes the subject from an unusually wide variety of viewpoints, including historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, feminist and mythological. There are works central and peripheral to the traditional Victorian canon discussed in Sex and Death; as such the essays present an unprecedented perspective on the shifts and movements of nineteenth-century literature. By…mehr
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature is a landmark collection of 13 previously unpublished essays on nineteenth-century British poetry, fiction and prose by the most important English and American scholars in the field. The volume observes the subject from an unusually wide variety of viewpoints, including historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, feminist and mythological. There are works central and peripheral to the traditional Victorian canon discussed in Sex and Death; as such the essays present an unprecedented perspective on the shifts and movements of nineteenth-century literature. By grouping the essays under the aegis of sexuality and morality, the volume allows the authors to explore the most important aspects of the works they discuss.
Notes on the Contributors Preface Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature; R.Barreca 'You did not come': Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess; J.Kincaid Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in Nineteenth Century Fiction; R.Tracy Tennyson's Sword: From 'Mungo the American' to Idylls of the King; G.Joseph Eros, Chronos and Mortal Closure: The Case of Daniel Deronda; G.Stewart Undoing Ruskin; M.A.Caws Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification vs the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray; C.Hanbury MacKay Art, Sexuality and Late Victorian Supernaturalism; R.Gagnier The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Gaskell's Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman; H.Schor 'Through Death to Love': Terminal Sexuality and the Pre Raphaelites; R.Zweig Death and Sex from Tennyson's Early Poetry to In Memoriam; S.Manning The Double Death of Eurydice: A Discussion of Browning and Mythology; R.Steiner The Power of Excommunication: Sex and the Feminine Text in Wuthering Heights; R.Barreca Dialogue with the Dead: The deceased beloved as Muse; E.Bronfen Index
Notes on the Contributors Preface Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature; R.Barreca 'You did not come': Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess; J.Kincaid Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in Nineteenth Century Fiction; R.Tracy Tennyson's Sword: From 'Mungo the American' to Idylls of the King; G.Joseph Eros, Chronos and Mortal Closure: The Case of Daniel Deronda; G.Stewart Undoing Ruskin; M.A.Caws Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification vs the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray; C.Hanbury MacKay Art, Sexuality and Late Victorian Supernaturalism; R.Gagnier The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Gaskell's Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman; H.Schor 'Through Death to Love': Terminal Sexuality and the Pre Raphaelites; R.Zweig Death and Sex from Tennyson's Early Poetry to In Memoriam; S.Manning The Double Death of Eurydice: A Discussion of Browning and Mythology; R.Steiner The Power of Excommunication: Sex and the Feminine Text in Wuthering Heights; R.Barreca Dialogue with the Dead: The deceased beloved as Muse; E.Bronfen Index
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