Dead lovers : erotic bonds and the study of premodern Europe
From Eurydice to Laura and beyond, dead lovers call forth powerful expressions of grief, sorrow, love, and longing. They occasion mourning and other rituals and seem to be intrinsically bound up with changing ideas of subject-hood itself. Dead Lovers explores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the early modern period
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, ©2006
Kongress Michigan 2003
viii, 172 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780472115600, 047211560X
64624911
Introduction / Basil Dufallo and Peggy McCracken
The best lover / David M. Halperin
Propertius and the blindness of affect / Basil Dufallo
Wilfred Owen's Adonis / J.D. Reed
Embracing the corpse : necrophilic tendencies in Petrarch / Alison Cornish
Orpheus after Eurydice : (according to Albrecht Durer) / Helmut Puff
Dead letters / Catherine Brown
"Until death do us part?" : the flesh and bones of politics in early modern Spain / Samuel Sanchez y Sanchez
Dead children : Ben Jonson's epitaph "on my first Sonne" / Silke-Maria Weineck / "Give sorrow words" : emotional loss and the articulation of temperament in early modern England /Michael Schoenfeldt