Thomas Albrecht is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the editor (with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg) of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman.

"…an elegant study in rhetorical analysis." — Victorian Studies"Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aesthetics—psychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicist—in The Medusa Effect." — Studies in English Literature

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Medusa Effect1. Apotropaic Reading: Freud’s Medusenhaupt2. A "Monstrous" Opposition: The Double Dionysus and the Double Apollo in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy3. Two Impressions of Medusa: Walter Pater and A. C. Swinburne4. Sympathy and Telepathy: Th e Problem of Ethics in George Eliot’s The Lifted VeilConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Thomas Albrecht is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the editor (with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg) of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman.

"…an elegant study in rhetorical analysis." — Victorian Studies"Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aesthetics—psychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicist—in The Medusa Effect." — Studies in English Literature

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Medusa Effect1. Apotropaic Reading: Freud’s Medusenhaupt2. A "Monstrous" Opposition: The Double Dionysus and the Double Apollo in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy3. Two Impressions of Medusa: Walter Pater and A. C. Swinburne4. Sympathy and Telepathy: Th e Problem of Ethics in George Eliot’s The Lifted VeilConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex

Thomas Albrecht is Associate Professor of English at Tulane University and the editor (with Georgia Albert and Elizabeth Rottenberg) of Selected Writings by Sarah Kofman.

"…an elegant study in rhetorical analysis." — Victorian Studies"Thomas Albrecht brings a radically different approach to aesthetics—psychoanalytic and poststructuralist rather than historicist—in The Medusa Effect." — Studies in English Literature

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Medusa Effect1. Apotropaic Reading: Freud’s Medusenhaupt2. A "Monstrous" Opposition: The Double Dionysus and the Double Apollo in Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy3. Two Impressions of Medusa: Walter Pater and A. C. Swinburne4. Sympathy and Telepathy: Th e Problem of Ethics in George Eliot’s The Lifted VeilConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex