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- catalog abstract ""In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote that "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjunction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Height6s to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs." --From cover. "Elisabeth Bronfen throws light on the disturbing conjunction of beauty, morbidity and the feminine that pervades our culture. Literary history, art criticism and psychoanalysis fruitfully combine to lay bare the uneasy interplay of pathology and power revealed in representations of the female corpse." --Ray Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.".
- catalog contributor b4004044.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""Elisabeth Bronfen throws light on the disturbing conjunction of beauty, morbidity and the feminine that pervades our culture. Literary history, art criticism and psychoanalysis fruitfully combine to lay bare the uneasy interplay of pathology and power revealed in representations of the female corpse." --Ray Porter, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London.".
- catalog description ""In 1846, Edgar Allan Poe wrote that "the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjunction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range from Carmen to Little Nell, from Wuthering Height6s to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs." --From cover.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 436-454) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I : Death : the epitome of tropes. Preparation for an autopsy ; The lady vanishes ; Violence of representation : representation of violence -- Part II : Rom animate body to inanimate text. The 'most' poetic topic ; Deathbed scenes ; Bodies on display ; The lady is a portrait ; Noli me videre ; Case Study : Wife to Mr Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddall (1829-62) -- Part III : Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange. Sacrificing extremity ; Femininity : missing in action ; Close encounters of a fatal kind -- Part IV : Stabilising the ambivalence of repetition. The speculated woman ; Rigor has set in : the wasted bride ; Necromancy, or closing the crack on the gravestone ; Risky resemblances ; Spectral stories ; The dead beloved as muse ; Case study : Henry's sister, Alice James (1848-92) -- Conclusion : Aporias of resistance. From muse to creatrix : Snow White unbound.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 460 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415906601".
- catalog identifier "041590661X (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "BF789.D4 B7 1992".
- catalog subject "Death Psychological aspects.".
- catalog subject "Death in literature.".
- catalog subject "Feminine beauty (Aesthetics)".
- catalog subject "Femininity in literature.".
- catalog subject "PN56.D4 B76 1992".
- catalog subject "Women in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I : Death : the epitome of tropes. Preparation for an autopsy ; The lady vanishes ; Violence of representation : representation of violence -- Part II : Rom animate body to inanimate text. The 'most' poetic topic ; Deathbed scenes ; Bodies on display ; The lady is a portrait ; Noli me videre ; Case Study : Wife to Mr Rossetti, Elizabeth Siddall (1829-62) -- Part III : Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange. Sacrificing extremity ; Femininity : missing in action ; Close encounters of a fatal kind -- Part IV : Stabilising the ambivalence of repetition. The speculated woman ; Rigor has set in : the wasted bride ; Necromancy, or closing the crack on the gravestone ; Risky resemblances ; Spectral stories ; The dead beloved as muse ; Case study : Henry's sister, Alice James (1848-92) -- Conclusion : Aporias of resistance. From muse to creatrix : Snow White unbound.".
- catalog title "Over her dead body : death, femininity and the aesthetic / Elisabeth Bronfen.".
- catalog type "text".