Stretched Out on Her Grave: Pathological Attitudes Toward Death in British Fiction 1788-1909
Description:
Nineteenth-century British fiction is often dismissed as necrophillic or obsessed with death. While the label of necrophilia is an apt description of the fetishistic representations of dead women prevalent at the end of the century, it is too narrow to fit literature produced earlier in the century. This is not to say that abnormal attitudes toward death are only a feature of the late nineteenth century. In fact, pathological attitudes toward death abound in the literature, but the relationship…
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Date:
August 2003
Creator:
Angel-Cann, Lauryn
Partner:
UNT Libraries