Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

Part 1 Death - the epitome of tropes: preparation for an autopsy the lady vanishes violence of representation - representation of violence. Part 2 From animate body to inanimate text: the most poetic topic deathbed scenes bodies on display the lady is a portrait noli me videre case study - wife to Mr Rossetti - Elizabeth Siddall (1829-1862). Part 3 Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange: sacrificing extremity femininity - missing in action close encounters of a fatal kind. Part 4 Stabilizing the ambivalence of repetition: the speculated woman rigour has set in - the wasted bride necromancy, or closing the crack in the gravestone risk resemblances spectral stories the dead beloved as muse case study - Henry's sister - Alice James (1848-1892). Part 5 Conclusion - aporias of resistance: from muse to creatrix - Snow White unbound.