The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noble, Marianne, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Critique et interpretation.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896. > Uncle Tom's cabin.
Warner, Susan, > 1819-1885. > Wide, wide world.
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation.
Uncle Tom's cabin (Stowe, Harriet Beecher)
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
English.
Erotische Literatur
Masochismus > Motiv
Frauenliteratur
Women and literature
Sex in literature
Sentimentalism in literature
Psychoanalysis and literature
Pleasure in literature
Masochism in literature
Erotic literature, American
American literature > Women authors
American literature
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Plaisir dans la litterature.
Masochisme dans la litterature.
Sentimentalisme dans la litterature.
Litterature erotique americaine > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Psychanalyse et litterature > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Litterature americaine > Histoire et critique.
American literature > History and criticism.
Sex in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Masochism in literature.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Erotic literature, American > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Psychoanalysis and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
USA.
United States
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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