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Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction 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 Heights to Vertigo, from Snow White to Frankenstein. The text is richly illustrated throughout with thirty-seven paintings and photographs.
Book Details
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publish Date: Oct 1st, 1992
- Pages: 480
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.97in - 1.47lb
- EAN: 9780719038273
- Recommended age: 18-18
- Categories: • Women's Studies• Gothic & Romance• Horror & Supernatural
About the Author
Bronfen, Elisabeth: - Elisabeth Bronfen is Professor at the English Department of Zurich University
Praise for this book
Aside from the originality - or fearful finality - of its arguments, the book will be invaluable as an introduction to the use of psychoanalysis in the interpretation of cultural texts' - New Statesman & Society
'Death faces a similar taboo in our century to the one that sex suffered in the last...Bronfen addresses an important silence in contemporary culture.' - The TImes