Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-century French Literature

By Lisa Downing

This text challenges traditional Freudian theories of sexuality and feminist critiques of the "masculine" morbid aesthetic, in order to bring to light a model of desire whose problematic nature afflicts existing discourses about sexuality and gender in 19th-century France and beyond.

• 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"