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OverviewThis title examines images of horror in Victorian fiction, criticism and philosophy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thomas AlbrechtPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.263kg ISBN: 9781438428680ISBN 10: 1438428685 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 02 July 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: The Medusa Effect 1. Apotropaic Reading: Freud's Medusenhaupt 2. A ""Monstrous"" Opposition: The Double Dionysus and the Double Apollo in Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy 3. Two Impressions of Medusa: Walter Pater and A. C. Swinburne 4. Sympathy and Telepathy: Th e Problem of Ethics in George Eliot's The Lifted Veil Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index"Reviews...an elegant study in rhetorical analysis. - Victorian Studies Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aesthetics-psychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicist-in The Medusa Effect. - Studies in English Literature Author InformationThomas Albrecht is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the editor (with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg) of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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