The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature / / Marianne Noble.
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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Noble, Marianne, author. The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature / Marianne Noble. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2000] ©2000 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Weird Curves": Masochism and Feminism -- One: Masochistic Discourses of Womanhood -- Two: Sentimental Masochism -- Three: "An Ecstasy of Apprehension": The Erotics of Domination in The Wide, Wide World -- Four: The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Five: The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Emily Dickinson's Uses of Sentimental Masochism -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Masochism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. She begins by exploring the cultural forces that came together to create this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of "true womanhood." She goes on to demonstrate how sentimental literature takes advantage of the expressive power in the convergence of these two discourses to imagine women's romantic desire. Therefore, in sentimental literature, images of eroticized domination are not antithetical to female pleasure but rather can be constitutive of it. The book, however, does not simply celebrate that fact. In readings of Warner's The Wide Wide World, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Dickinson's sentimental poetry, it addresses the complex benefits and costs of nineteenth-century women's literary masochism. Ultimately it shows how these authors both exploited and were shaped by this discursive practice. The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature exemplifies new trends in "Third Wave" feminist scholarship, presenting cultural and historical research informed by clear, lucid discussions of psychoanalytic and literary theory. It demonstrates that contemporary theories of masochism--including those of Deleuze, Bataille, Kristeva, Benjamin, Bersani, Noyes, Mansfield--are more relevant and comprehensible when considered in relation to sentimental literature. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) American literature History and criticism. American literature Women authors History and criticism. American literature 19th century History and criticism. American literature United States History and criticism Women authors 19th century. Erotic literature, American History and criticism. Erotic literature, American. Masochism in literature. Pleasure in literature. Psychoanalysis and literature United States History 19th century. Sentimentalism in literature. Sex in literature. Women and literature History and criticism. Women and literature United States History 19th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Univ. Press eBook Package 2000-2013 9783110413434 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691009377 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400823659 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400823659.jpg |
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Noble, Marianne, The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Weird Curves": Masochism and Feminism -- One: Masochistic Discourses of Womanhood -- Two: Sentimental Masochism -- Three: "An Ecstasy of Apprehension": The Erotics of Domination in The Wide, Wide World -- Four: The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Five: The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Emily Dickinson's Uses of Sentimental Masochism -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Masochism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Weird Curves": Masochism and Feminism -- One: Masochistic Discourses of Womanhood -- Two: Sentimental Masochism -- Three: "An Ecstasy of Apprehension": The Erotics of Domination in The Wide, Wide World -- Four: The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin -- Five: The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Emily Dickinson's Uses of Sentimental Masochism -- Conclusion: The Possibility of Masochism -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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