The Volcano Lover is an historical novel by Susan Sontag, published in 1992. Set largely in Naples, it focuses upon Emma Hamilton, her marriage to Sir...

Metaphor (1978) and Regarding the Pain of Others (2003), as well as the fictional works The Way We Live Now (1986), The Volcano Lover (1992), and In America...

destiny." Sarah Kerr of The New York Times gave the book modest praise, writing, "Almost but not quite as lively as in The Volcano Lover, Sontag's prose here...

in 1964, and was her first contribution to the Partisan Review. The essay attracted interest in Sontag. The essay was republished in 1966 in Sontag's debut...

novel The Volcano Lover: A Romance. In the 1941 movie That Hamilton Woman, the role of Sir William Hamilton was portrayed by Alan Mowbray. In the Dessau-Wörlitz...

Style" and the eponymous essay "Against Interpretation." In the latter, Sontag argues that the new approach to criticism and aesthetics neglects the sensuous...

Representation. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780815374237. The Volcano Lover, a novel by Susan Sontag, features Emma prominently as a partially...

Regarding the Pain of Others is a 2003 book-length essay by Susan Sontag, which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was her last...

she challenged the victim-blaming in the language that is often used to describe diseases and the people affected by them. Teasing out the similarities...

relationship with the world and can diminish the meaning of events. The book discusses the relationship between photography and politics and the tension between...