Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature
Prof. Lisa Downing
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. Drawing case material from the 19th century French canon, the author brings works by Baudelaire and Rachilde into dialogue with foundational European texts of sexology and Psychoanalysis. She reads against the grain of traditional Freudian theories of sexuality, the conventions of 19th century literary scholarship, 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.
年:
2002
版本:
1
出版商:
Routledge
語言:
english
頁數:
156
ISBN 10:
1900755653
ISBN 13:
9781900755658
系列:
Legenda
文件:
PDF, 78.50 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2002
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