The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

Marianne Noble

Princeton University Press, 2000

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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. This book explores the cultural forces that created this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of womanhood.

ISBN-13
9780691009377
ISBN-10
0691009376
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
2000
Publication date
2000-04-24
Pages
240
Dimensions
254x197x
Weight
386