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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Main Author: Noble, Marianne, 1968-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000
Subjects:
Warner, Susan, > 1819-1885. > Wide, wide world.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, > 1811-1896. > Uncle Tom's cabin.
Dickinson, Emily, > 1830-1886 > Criticism and interpretation.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Psychoanalysis and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Erotic literature, American > History and criticism.
Sentimentalism in literature.
Masochism in literature.
Pleasure in literature.
Sex in literature.
American literature > History and criticism.
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