Tears, Liquids and Porous Bodies in Literature Across the Ages : Niobe's Siblings / by Lennartz, Norbert

Table of Contents: “…Porous Hommes and Femmes Machines: Fanny Hill -- Porous Gothic porn: The Monk -- Stony poetics versus porous effusions: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Wordsworth's anti-porous architecture -- Coleridge's riotous fountains -- Niobean snakes, giants and monsters in Keats and Byron -- Keats's alchemy of evaporation -- Tidal and porous 'affairs' in Byron's poetry -- 3 Far from the madding Romantic crowd: The anti-porous turn in the Victorian age -- From body to stone: The myth of Pygmalion reloaded in Victorian fiction -- The sister as Pygmalion: Goblin Market…”
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