LEADER 04776nam 22007815 450 001 9910460053803321 005 20210423031313.0 010 $a1-282-76705-4 010 $a9786612767050 010 $a1-4008-2365-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823659 035 $a(CKB)2670000000044357 035 $a(EBL)581631 035 $a(OCoLC)700688657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000198532 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11187604 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000198532 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10169015 035 $a(PQKB)10236535 035 $a(DE-B1597)446188 035 $a(OCoLC)979628987 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823659 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581631 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000044357 100 $a20190708d2000 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|nu---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature /$fMarianne Noble 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ :$cPrinceton University Press,$d[2000] 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-00937-6 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: "Weird Curves": Masochism and Feminism --$tOne: Masochistic Discourses of Womanhood --$tTwo: Sentimental Masochism --$tThree: "An Ecstasy of Apprehension": The Erotics of Domination in The Wide, Wide World --$tFour: The Ecstasies of Sentimental Wounding in Uncle Tom's Cabin --$tFive: The Revenge of Cato's Daughter: Emily Dickinson's Uses of Sentimental Masochism --$tConclusion: The Possibility of Masochism --$tNotes --$tWorks Cited --$tIndex 330 $aFor 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 to create this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of "true womanhood." She goes on to demonstrate how sentimental literature takes advantage of the expressive power in the convergence of these two discourses to imagine women's romantic desire. Therefore, in sentimental literature, images of eroticized domination are not antithetical to female pleasure but rather can be constitutive of it. The book, however, does not simply celebrate that fact. In readings of Warner's The Wide Wide World, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Dickinson's sentimental poetry, it addresses the complex benefits and costs of nineteenth-century women's literary masochism. Ultimately it shows how these authors both exploited and were shaped by this discursive practice. The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature exemplifies new trends in "Third Wave" feminist scholarship, presenting cultural and historical research informed by clear, lucid discussions of psychoanalytic and literary theory. It demonstrates that contemporary theories of masochism--including those of Deleuze, Bataille, Kristeva, Benjamin, Bersani, Noyes, Mansfield--are more relevant and comprehensible when considered in relation to sentimental literature. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xWomen authors$y19th century$zUnited States 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature$xHistory$y19th century$zUnited States 606 $aWomen and literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aErotic literature, American 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aMasochism in literature 606 $aPleasure in literature 606 $aSex in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism$xWomen authors 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aErotic literature, American 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature 615 0$aMasochism in literature 615 0$aPleasure in literature 615 0$aSex in literature 676 $a809 676 $a810.9/353 676 $a810.9353 700 $aNoble$b Marianne$0600699 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460053803321 996 $aMasochistic pleasures of sentimental literature$91023744 997 $aUNINA