Over her dead body: Death, femininity and the aesthetic

Front matter
Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Death – the epitome of tropes
	Preparation for an autopsy
	The lady vanishes
	Violence of representation – representation of violence
Part II From animate body to inanimate text
	The ‘most’ poetic topic
	Deathbed scenes
	Bodies on display
	The lady is a portrait
	Noli me videre
	Case study: Wife to Mr Rossetti – Elizabeth Siddall (1829–62)
Part III Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange
	Sacrificing extremity
	Femininity – missing in action
	Close encounters of a fatal kind
Part IV Stabilising the ambivalence of repetition
	The speculated woman
	Rigor has set in – the wasted bride
	Necromancy, or closing the crack on the gravestone
	Risky resemblances
	Spectral stories
	The dead beloved as muse
	Case study: Henry’s Sister – Alice James (1848–92)
Conclusion: Aporias of resistance
	From muse to creatrix – Snow White unbound
Bibliography
Sources of epigraphs
Index