Sex and Death in Victorian Literature

Chapter 1 Introduction: Coming and Going in Victorian Literature

Chapter 2 ‘You did not come’: Absence, Death and Eroticism in Tess

Chapter 3 Loving You All Ways: Vamps, Vampires, Necrophiles and Necrofilles in Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Chapter 4 Tennyson’s Sword: From ‘Mungo the American’ to Idylls of the King

Chapter 5 ‘Beckoning Death’: Daniel Deronda and the Plotting of a Reading

Chapter 6 Against Completion: Ruskin’s Drama of Dream, Lateness and Loss

Chapter 7 Controlling Death and Sex: Magnification v. the Rhetoric of Rules in Dickens and Thackeray

Chapter 8 Evolution and Information, or Eroticism and Everyday Life, in Dracula and Late Victorian Aestheticism

Chapter 9 The Plot of the Beautiful Ignoramus: Ruth and the Tradition of the Fallen Woman

Chapter 11 Death and Sex from Tennyson’s Early Poetry to In Memoriam

Chapter 12 The Double Death of Eurydice: A Discussion of Browning and Mythology

Chapter 13 The Power of Excommunication: Sex and the Feminine Text in Wuthering Heights

Chapter 14 Dialogue with the Dead: the Deceased Beloved as Muse