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The gender of death : a cultural history in art and literature / Karl S. Guthke.

By: Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.Description: xii, 297 p. : ill. ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 0521644607 (pbk.)
  • 0521591953 (hb)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700/.4548 21
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Contents:
1. Imaging the Unimaginable: Death Personified: Is Death a woman? -- 2. The Middle Ages: The Unfortunate Fall: The wages of sin - Adam's sin, or Eve's? -- 3. Renaissance and Baroque: The Devil Incarnate: Death and the Maiden - and the man -- 4. The Romantic Age: "How Wonderful is Death": The youth with the downturned torch; "The last best friend"; Death in the bridal chamber -- 5. From Decadence to Postmodernity: The Stranger at the Masked Ball: Angels of death and skeletal coquettes -- Epilogue: Death immortalizing life.
1. Imaging the Unimaginable: Death Personified: Is Death a woman? -- 2. The Middle Ages: The Unfortunate Fall: The wages of sin - Adam's sin, or Eve's? -- 3. Renaissance and Baroque: The Devil Incarnate: Death and the Maiden - and the man -- 4. The Romantic Age: "How Wonderful is Death": The youth with the downturned torch; "The last best friend"; Death in the bridal chamber -- 5. From Decadence to Postmodernity: The Stranger at the Masked Ball: Angels of death and skeletal coquettes --Epilogue: Death immortalizing life.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 700.4548 GUT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 62854

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-289) and index.

1. Imaging the Unimaginable: Death Personified: Is Death a woman? -- 2. The Middle Ages: The Unfortunate Fall: The wages of sin - Adam's sin, or Eve's? -- 3. Renaissance and Baroque: The Devil Incarnate: Death and the Maiden - and the man -- 4. The Romantic Age: "How Wonderful is Death": The youth with the downturned torch; "The last best friend"; Death in the bridal chamber -- 5. From Decadence to Postmodernity: The Stranger at the Masked Ball: Angels of death and skeletal coquettes -- Epilogue: Death immortalizing life.

1. Imaging the Unimaginable: Death Personified: Is Death a woman? -- 2. The Middle Ages: The Unfortunate Fall: The wages of sin - Adam's sin, or Eve's? -- 3. Renaissance and Baroque: The Devil Incarnate: Death and the Maiden - and the man -- 4. The Romantic Age: "How Wonderful is Death": The youth with the downturned torch; "The last best friend"; Death in the bridal chamber -- 5. From Decadence to Postmodernity: The Stranger at the Masked Ball: Angels of death and skeletal coquettes --Epilogue: Death immortalizing life.

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