Sex and Death in Victorian Literature
- ISBN-10
- 1349102806
- ISBN-13
- 9781349102808
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-07-27
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- Regina Barreca
Description
Sex and Death in Victorian Literature is a landmark collection of 13 previously unpublished essays on nineteenth-century British poetry, fiction and prose by the most important English and American scholars in the field. The volume observes the subject from an unusually wide variety of viewpoints, including historical, sociological, psychoanalytic, feminist and mythological. There are works central and peripheral to the traditional Victorian canon discussed in Sex and Death; as such the essays present an unprecedented perspective on the shifts and movements of nineteenth-century literature. By grouping the essays under the aegis of sexuality and morality, the volume allows the authors to explore the most important aspects of the works they discuss.
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