1st Edition
Desiring the Dead Necrophilia and Nineteenth-century French Literature
By Prof. Lisa Downing
Copyright 2003
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction I From Sade to Sexology 2 Immobilizing Impulses: Death in Psychoanalysis 3 The Poetics of Baudelaire's Liebestod 4 Rachilde and the Death of Gender, Conclusion, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Profesor Lisa Downing, University of Oxford
