LEADER 04007nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910821286003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-12968-6 010 $a9786612129681 010 $a1-4008-2740-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400827404 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756271 035 $a(EBL)445504 035 $a(OCoLC)355813913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000177097 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11168730 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000177097 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10210257 035 $a(PQKB)10623595 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36246 035 $a(DE-B1597)446395 035 $a(OCoLC)979578642 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400827404 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445504 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284178 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212968 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445504 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756271 100 $a20060315d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aImperial masochism $eBritish fiction, fantasy, and social class /$fJohn Kucich 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-12712-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note On Texts -- $tIntroduction. Fantasy and Ideology -- $tChapter One. Melancholy Magic -- $tChapter Two. Olive Schreiner's Preoedipal Dreams -- $tChapter Three. Sadomasochism and the Magical Group -- $tChapter Four. The Masochism of the Craft -- $tConclusion -- $tIndex 330 $aBritish imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater." In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Drawing on recent psychoanalytic theory to define masochism in terms of narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence rather than sexual perversion, the book illuminates how masochism mediates political thought of many different kinds, not simply those that represent the social order as an opposition of mastery and submission, or an eroticized drama of power differentials. Masochism was a powerful psychosocial language that enabled colonial writers to articulate judgments about imperialism and class. The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture. 606 $aEnglish fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMasochism in literature 606 $aSocial classes in literature 606 $aImperialism in literature 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMasochism in literature. 615 0$aSocial classes in literature. 615 0$aImperialism in literature. 676 $a823/.89353 700 $aKucich$b John$0449912 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821286003321 996 $aImperial masochism$94036584 997 $aUNINA