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Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily...



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An engaged and engaging study of the complex, late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century interactions between death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy.

-- Sandra M. Gilbert * Victorian Studies *

Melissa Zeiger's well-written book on the modern elegy engages a series of related yet distinct thematic concerns... By helping to break up the standard critical paradigm for elegy and for mourning, by finding a language to embrace poems that lie outside it, and by tracing the gender dynamics of elegy, Melissa Zeiger's Beyond Consolation opens us to varieties of grief within poetry and beyond.

-- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia * Modern Philology *

Beyond Consolation Death Sexuality and the

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: 25/09/1997
      ISBN13: 9780801484414, 978-0801484414
      ISBN10: 0801484413
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      Literary theory Gender studies, gender groups

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Using as her starting point the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, Melissa F. Zeiger examines modern transformations of poetic elegy, particularly as they reflect historical changes in the politics of gender and sexuality. Although her focus is primarily...



      Trade Review

      An engaged and engaging study of the complex, late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century interactions between death, sexuality, and the changing shapes of elegy.

      -- Sandra M. Gilbert * Victorian Studies *

      Melissa Zeiger's well-written book on the modern elegy engages a series of related yet distinct thematic concerns... By helping to break up the standard critical paradigm for elegy and for mourning, by finding a language to embrace poems that lie outside it, and by tracing the gender dynamics of elegy, Melissa Zeiger's Beyond Consolation opens us to varieties of grief within poetry and beyond.

      -- Jahan Ramazani, University of Virginia * Modern Philology *

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