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