Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

Elisabeth Bronfen

Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

Elisabeth Bronfen

460 pages 1992

5 editions

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In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascin...

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