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The gender of death : a cultural history in art and literature

An illustrated historical study of gendered personifications of death in Western art, literature, and culture.
Print Book, English, 1999
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1999
xii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780521591959, 9780521644600, 0521591953, 0521644607
1000981703
Introduction: why this book? 1. Imagining the unimaginable: death personified; 2. The Middle Ages: the unfortunate Fall; 3. Renaissance and Baroque: the devil incarnate; 4. The Romantic age: 'How wonderful is death'; 5. From decadence to postmodernity: the stranger at the masked ball; Epilogue: death immortalising life.