Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature by Lisa Downing

Desiring the Dead: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature: Necrophilia and Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Lisa Downing

146 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

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In the 19th century, literature shared with the medical and psychological sciences a strategy of examining the most extreme manifestations of human desire. Drawing case material from the 19th-century French canon, the author brings works by Baudel...

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