Sex and Death in Victorian Literature

Abstract

Spine title: Sex & death in Victorian literature. Coming and going in Victorian literature / Regina Barreca -- You did not come: absence, death and eroticism in Tess / James Kincaid -- Loving you all ways: vamps, vampires, necrophiles and necrofilles in nineteenth-century fiction / Robert Tracy -- Tennyson's sword: from Mungo the American to Idylls of the king / Gerhard Joseph -- Beckoning death: Daniel Deronda and the plotting of a reading / Garrett Stewart -- Against completion: Ruskin's drama of dream, lateness and loss / Mary Ann Caws -- Controlling death and sex: magnification v. the rhetoric of rules in Dickens and Thackeray / Carol Hanbery MacKay -- Evolution and information, or eroticism and everyday life, in Dracula and late Victorian aestheticism / Regenia Gagnier -- The plot of the beautiful ignoramus: Ruth and the tradition of the fallen woman / Hilary Schor -- Death-in-love: Rossetti and the Victorian journey back to Dante / Robert Zweig -- Death and sex from Tennyson's early poetry to In memoriam / Sylvia Manning -- The double death of Eurydice: a discussion of Browning and mythology / Robert Steiner -- The power of excommunication: sex and the feminine text in Wuthering Heights / Regina Barreca -- Dialogue with the dead: the deceased beloved as muse / Elisabeth Bronfen.