Ordinary masochisms: agency and desire in victorian and modernist fiction
Auteur :
Mitchell, Jennifer
Éditeur :
University Press of Florida
ISBN :
9780813066677
Date de publication :
27 oct. 2020
Dimensions :
22,8 x 15,2 x 1,7 cm
Poids :
473 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behaviour, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In these texts, Jennifer Mitchell highlights everyday examples of characters deriving pleasure from pain.