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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Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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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.