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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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