Over Her Dead Body
by Elisabeth Bronfen
★★★★★
5.0 (1 rating)1992484 pages
About this book
In 1846, Edgar Allen Poe wrote that 'the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetic topic in the world'. The conjuction of death, art and femininity forms a rich and disturbing strata of Western culture, explored here in fascinating detail by Elisabeth Bronfen. Her examples range…
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