Over Her Dead Body Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic

pt. 1. Death: the epitome of tropes. Preparation for an autopsy -- The lady vanishes -- Violence of representation -- representation of violence -- pt. 2. From animate body to inanimate text. The 'most' poetic topic -- Deathbed scenes -- Bodies on display -- The lady is a portrait -- Noli me videre -- pt. 3. Strategies of translation, mitigation and exchange. Sacrificing extremity -- Femininity: missing in action -- Close encounters of a fatal kind -- pt. 4. Stabilising the ambivalence of repetition -- The speculated woman -- Rigor has set in: the wasted bride -- Necromancy, or closing the crack on the gravestone -- Risky resemblances -- Spectral stories -- The dead beloved as muse -- Conclusion: Aporias of resistance.