Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry
by
Anne C. McCarthy
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
Whether the rapt trances of Romanticism or the corpse-like figures that confounded Victorian science and religion, nineteenth-century depictions of bodies in suspended animation are read as manifestations of broader concerns about the unknowable in Anne C. McCarthy’s Awful Parenthesis. Examining...