Second death in Venice: Romanticism and the compulsion to repeat in Jeanette Winterson's The Passion

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  • Author(s): Seaboyer, Judith
  • Source:
    Contemporary Literature. Fall97, Vol. 38 Issue 3, p483. 27p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      Passion, The (Book : Winterson); Books
    • Abstract:
      Focuses on Jeanette Winterson, author of the book `The Passion,' in which she reinforces the link between the psychic lack that Venice promises to fill to Romantic desire and loss. Setting of `The Passion,'during the period of High Romanticism and linking the narrative to the rise and fall of Napoleon; How death is inscribed in the book.