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Paperback The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature Book

ISBN: 0691009376

ISBN13: 9780691009377

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 literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. She begins by exploring the cultural forces that came together...

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