Death Becomes Her : Cultural Narratives of Femininity and Death in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9781443810746
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: Literature;

Dead and dying women are surely an age-old narrative trope. While associations of femininity with death have become almost prototypical in literary criticism and are familiar fodder for cultural conversations, the editors of Death Becomes Her offer us an opportunity to investigate the values that underlie such associations. But from where does our tireless investment in what constitutes a feminine death, a feminine reaction to death, and deathOCOs courting of women emerge? These essays give vo..."


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