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Author:   Lisa A. Dickson (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada) ,  Maryna Romanets (University of Northern British Columbia, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9780415829403

ISBN 10:   0415829402
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   16 July 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Beauty, Representation, Violence Lisa Dickson & Maryna Romanets Part I: Histories 1. ""Þus for thy goode I shedde my bloode"": Violence and Beauty in the Late Medieval English Biblical Cycles Leanne Groeneveld 2. Staging Beauty; or, A History of Violence: Rending the Aesthetic in Jeffrey Hatcher’s Compleat Female Stage Beauty Deneen Senasi 3. Beauty, Violence, and the East: Paradigms of Femininity in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Oriental Narratives Marianna D’Ezio 4. ""Hearts as innocent as hers"": The Drowned Woman in Victorian Literature and Art Lynn Alexander Part II: Aesthetics 5. Violence and Beauty: Jacques Lacan’s Antigone Andrew Slade 6. ""All beauty must die"": The Aesthetics of Murder, from Thomas De Quincey to Nick Cave David McInnis 7. Environmentality and Air Travel Disasters: Representing the Violence of Plane Crashes Christopher Schaberg Part III: Resistance 8. Deconstructing Neoliberalism: Sledgehammering the End of History Robert Bennett 9. A Queer Craving: Muscle and the Dynamics of Beauty, Homoerotic Desire, and Sadomasochism in Japanese Gay Pink Cinema Mark DeStephano 10. Subversion of the Violent Gaze: Sins Invalid and the Aesthetics of Disabled Bodies Tara Wood 11. Coming Home from Iraq: Women Warriors and Feminine Vistas of Violence Elizabeth Bonjean"

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Lisa A. Dickson is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada Maryna Romanets is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada

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