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The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature /

For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's power. Marianne Noble argues that tropes of eroticized domination in sentimental literatur...

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Autor principal: Noble, Marianne, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction "Weird Curves": Masochism and Feminism
  • Masochistic Discourses of Womanhood
  • Sentimental Masochism
  • The Parallel Structures of Sentimentalism and Masochism
  • "The Lineaments of the Divine Master"
  • "An Ecstasy of Apprehension": The Erotics, of Domination in The Wide, Wide World
  • The Making of a Masochist
  • Horsewhipping and the Exploration of Desire
  • The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • The Epistemology of Wounds
  • A Raging, Burning Storm of Feeling
  • The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Emily Dickinson's Uses of Sentimental Masochism
  • The Power of Sentimental Masochism
  • The Erotics of Sentimental Masochism
  • The Presence of Sentimental Masochism
  • Conclusion The Possibility of Masochism.