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Hardcover Ordinary Masochisms: Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction Book

ISBN: 0813066670

ISBN13: 9780813066677

Ordinary Masochisms: Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction

Ordinary Masochisms reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, 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 in encounters and emotions such as flirtations, courtships, betrothals, lesbian desires, religious...

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