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Stretched Out On Her Grave: The Evolution of a Perversion

The word "necrophilia" brings a particular definition readily to mind – that of an act of sexual intercourse with a corpse, probably a female corpse at that. But the definition of the word did not always have this connotation; quite literally the word means "love of the dead," or "a morbid attraction to death." An examination of nineteenth-century literature reveals a gradual change in relationships between the living and the dead, culminating in the sexualized representation of corpses at the close of the century. The works examined for necrophilic content are: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Mary, A Fiction, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc2586
Date08 1900
CreatorsAngel-Cann, Lauryn
ContributorsVann, J. Don (Jerry Don), 1938-, Preston, Thomas R., Eubank, Lynn
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
FormatText
RightsUse restricted to UNT Community, Copyright, Angel-Cann, Lauryn, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

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