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This collection of essays examines the links between the images of death and sexuality in Victorian fiction and poetry. The contributors examine the ways in which fear of death was placed beside sexual desire and how Victorian writers managed to write about sex without overtly referring to it. The essays include an examination of Count Dracula's eternal seductions, an exploration of the pairing of Eros and Thanatos in George Eliot's fiction and an exploration of the work of Ruskin. Some of the essays attempt to "undo" much of the preceding critical wisdom on the subject. The dialectics of sex and death, these critics claim, must be viewed as one of the most influential patterns in Victorian poetry and prose. Regina Barreca has written "Punch Lines: Women, Comedy and Subversion in English and American Literature" and is editor of "Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy". --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
This collection of essays examines the links between the images of death and sexuality in Victorian fiction and poetry. The contributors examine the ways in which fear of death was placed beside sexual desire and how Victorian writers managed to write about sex without overtly referring to it. The essays include an examination of Count Dracula's eternal seductions, an exploration of the pairing of Eros and Thanatos in George Eliot's fiction and an exploration of the work of Ruskin. Some of the essays attempt to "undo" much of the preceding critical wisdom on the subject. The dialectics of sex and death, these critics claim, must be viewed as one of the most influential patterns in Victorian poetry and prose. Regina Barreca has written "Punch Lines: Women, Comedy and Subversion in English and American Literature" and is editor of "Last Laughs: Perspectives on Women and Comedy". --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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- Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker's Fiction: by Carol A. Senf on 4 pages
- Death and Representation (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Sarah Webster Goodwin on page 79, page 190, and Back Matter
- The New Nineteenth Century: Feminist Readings of Underread Victorian Fiction (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities) by Barbara Harman on page 113, and page 114
- Alien Nation: Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality (New Cultural Studies) by Cannon Schmitt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Literary Secretaries / Secretarial Culture by Leah Price on page 87, and Back Matter
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