{"product_id":"dead-lovers-basil-dufallo-9780472115600","title":"Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Eurydice to Laura and beyond, dead lovers call forth powerful expressions of grief, sorrow, love, and longing. They occasion mourning and other rituals and seem to be intrinsically bound up with changing ideas of subjecthood itself. \u003ci\u003eDead Lovers\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the early modern period. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy reflecting on the study of dead lovers, these essays also trace the development of themes and claims relating to our own investment in a \"dead\" but eroticized past that we seek to recover. The collection offers a sustained discussion of how scholarly interest in the representation of loss and erotic bonds raises pressing questions about nostalgia, performance, the role of affect in intellectual work, and the gendered cultural values that script the description and experience of the erotic. In its focus on loss as a site of affect and imagination, \u003ci\u003eDead Lovers \u003c\/i\u003eoffers an original and provocative contribution to the history of scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBasil Dufallo\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeggy McCracken\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of French and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Basil Dufallo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 047211560X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472115600\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 180\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.36h x 6.28w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2007 pg. 239","brand":"Basil Dufallo","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086705471743,"sku":"9780472115600","price":84.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1d01d201-10c3-462d-ab61-2987d5d86e37.jpg?v=1769096101","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dead-lovers-basil-dufallo-9780472115600","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}