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Sex and Death in Victorian Literature

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  • © 1990

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  1. Regina Barreca

    1. University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages iii-viii
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  2. Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature

    • Regina Barreca
    Pages 1-8

  3. ‘You did not come’: Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess

    • James Kincaid
    Pages 9-31

  4. Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    • Robert Tracy
    Pages 32-59

  5. Tennyson’s Sword: From ‘Mungo the American’ to Idylls of the King

    • Gerhard Joseph
    Pages 60-68

  6. ‘Beckoning Death’: Daniel Deronda and the Plotting of a Reading

    • Garrett Stewart
    Pages 69-106

  7. Against Completion: Ruskin’s Drama of Dream, Lateness and Loss

    • Mary Ann Caws
    Pages 107-119

  8. Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification v. the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray

    • Carol Hanbery MacKay
    Pages 120-139

  9. Evolution and Information, or Eroticism and Everyday Life, in Dracula and Late Victorian Aestheticism

    • Regenia Gagnier
    Pages 140-157

  10. The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman

    • Hilary Schor
    Pages 158-177

  11. ‘Death—In—Love’: Rossetti and the Victorian Journey Back to Dante

    • Robert Zweig
    Pages 178-193

  12. Death and Sex from Tennyson’s Early Poetry to In Memoriam

    • Sylvia Manning
    Pages 194-210

  13. The Double Death of Eurydice: A Discussion of Browning and Mythology

    • Robert Steiner
    Pages 211-226

  14. The Power of Excommunication: Sex and the Feminine Text in Wuthering Heights

    • Regina Barreca
    Pages 227-240

  15. Dialogue with the Dead: the Deceased Beloved as Muse

    • Elisabeth Bronfen
    Pages 241-259

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 260-264
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Sex and Death in Victorian Literature is a landmark collection of 13 previously unpublished essays on nineteenth-century British poetry, fiction and prose by the most important English and American scholars in the field.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.

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  • University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA

    Regina Barreca

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