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Sex and Death in Victorian Literature

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature
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    Chapter 2 ‘You did not come’: Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess
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    Chapter 3 Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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    Chapter 4 Tennyson’s Sword: From ‘Mungo the American’ to Idylls of the King
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    Chapter 5 ‘Beckoning Death’: Daniel Deronda and the Plotting of a Reading
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    Chapter 6 Against Completion: Ruskin’s Drama of Dream, Lateness and Loss
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    Chapter 7 Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification v. the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray
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    Chapter 8 Evolution and Information, or Eroticism and Everyday Life, in Dracula and Late Victorian Aestheticism
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    Chapter 9 The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman
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    Chapter 10 ‘Death—In—Love’: Rossetti and the Victorian Journey Back to Dante
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    Chapter 11 Death and Sex from Tennyson’s Early Poetry to In Memoriam
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    Chapter 12 The Double Death of Eurydice: A Discussion of Browning and Mythology
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    Chapter 13 The Power of Excommunication: Sex and the Feminine Text in Wuthering Heights
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    Chapter 14 Dialogue with the Dead: the Deceased Beloved as Muse
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Chapter title
The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman
Chapter number 9
Book title
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan, London, January 1990
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-10280-8_9
Book ISBNs
978-1-349-10282-2, 978-1-349-10280-8
Authors

Hilary Schor

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