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Book SynopsisExplores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the early modern period. By reflecting on the study of dead lovers, this work traces the development of themes and claims about our own investment in a ""dead"".
Trade ReviewA cross-disciplinary book that will provoke discussion about how we think of our own academic practices and our investment in them. The substance of the essays is cultural and literary history and aesthetics, informed by theoretical concerns, but not overdetermined by them. Readers from all of the fields touched upon in the book will learn from it. - Sara S. Poor, Department of German, Princeton University ""Dead Lovers features a series of innovative and brilliant insights that help us rethink traditions ranging from literatures of longing, nostalgia and necrophelia, to the metaphysics of memory and relationality in both premodern and contemporary contexts. This genuinely exceptional book is a must-read for anyone thinking through what it may mean, or have meant, to love in the face of death."" - Carla Mazzio, Department of English, University of Chicago
