Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature

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In the 19th century, literature shared with the medical and psychological sciences a strategy of examining the most extreme manifestations of human desire. While fetishism, sadism and masochism still resonate as concepts with critical currency, necrophilia has received little attention. In this groundbreaking study, Lisa Downing rescues necrophilia from the margins of sexual desire, relocating it as a symptom and a pervasive fantasy of modern subjectivity...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1900755653

ISBN13:9781900755658

Release Date:October 2002

Publisher:Routledge

Length:156 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Related Subjects

History Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Psychology

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