Titlebook: Sex and Death in Victorian Literature; Regina Barreca Book 1990 Regina Barreca 1990 America.Charles Dickens.death.dialogue.English literat

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tion 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 Vict

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Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification v. the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray,be forced to conflate the two. Georges Bataille pursues the connection one step further in his basic formulation: ‘eroticism is assenting to life even in the face of death’ (Bataille, p. 11). By eroticising death, an Editor makes of death not

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,‘Death—In—Love’: Rossetti and the Victorian Journey Back to Dante,write no more until such time as he can ‘discourse more worthily’ (p. 618) of Beatrice. This paradoxical challenge, to bring words into confrontation with the ineffable, resulted in the supreme aesthetic achievements of medieval Europe, the .

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,‘Beckoning Death’: Daniel Deronda and the Plotting of a Reading,osure, that is, they highlight the fact that, in most novels of the period, death and sex are what happens afterwards. Sex follows marriage as death follows the scene of dying. They brook no representation except as the far threshold of what can be spoken of. With their pre-narrative counterparts in

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Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification v. the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray,nse poetic rendering of death may assume an erotic cast, while a rhetorical amplification of sexual desire frequently evokes images of death and dying. From Cupid’s arrow to the Elizabethan slang term for sexual climax, ‘to die’, we witness this melding. My point here is primarily a rhetorical one,

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Evolution and Information, or Eroticism and Everyday Life, in Dracula and Late Victorian Aesthetici meaning of life — that is, of the word ‘life’ — is part of the stress.. These boundary breakdowns are between the human and animal, the human/animal and machine, and, a subset of the second, the physical and non-physical. Biology and evolutionary theory have claimed that human and non-human animals