Sublime surrender : male masochism at the fin-de-siècle /

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When Heinrich Heine left his sick bed in 1848 and stumbled to the Louvre to fall before a statue of the goddess of beauty and lie in the pitying, cold glance she seemed to cast on his prostrate body, he defined a recurring motif of the second half of the nineteenth century, according to Suzanne R. S...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Stewart-Steinberg, Suzanne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Series:Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry.
Subjects:
Masochism.
Sexual dominance and submission.
Masochism in literature.
Sex in opera.
Masochism
Dominance-Subordination
Sexual Behavior
Masochisme.
Domination et soumission (Sexualité)
Masochisme dans la littérature.
Sexualité à l'opéra.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Men's Studies.
Masochism in literature
Sex in opera
Sexual dominance and submission
Letterkunde.
Mannen.
Fin de siècle.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "A familiar smile of fascination": Masochism, Sublimation, and the Cruelty of Love
  • 2. When Men Can No Longer Paint: Acts of Seeing in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
  • 3. The Theft of the Operatic Voice: Masochistic Seduction in Wagner's Parsifal
  • 4. Saving Love: Is Sigmund Freud's Leader a Man?
  • 5. The Rhetoric of Powerlessness.

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