دانلود کتاب Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic

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Front matter
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Death – the epitome of tropes
Preparation for an autopsy
The lady vanishes
Violence of representation – representation of violence
Part II From 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
Bibliography
Sources of epigraphs
Index