LEADER 04848nam 2200769 a 450 001 9910823279503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $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 $a19990921d2000 uy 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 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (267 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4008-0569-4 311 $a0-691-00937-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index. 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 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPsychoanalysis and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aErotic literature, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSentimentalism in literature 606 $aMasochism in literature 606 $aPleasure in literature 606 $aSex in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis and literature$xHistory 615 0$aWomen and literature$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aErotic literature, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSentimentalism in literature. 615 0$aMasochism in literature. 615 0$aPleasure in literature. 615 0$aSex in literature. 676 $a810.9/353 700 $aNoble$b Marianne$f1968-$01760519 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823279503321 996 $aThe masochistic pleasures of sentimental literature$94199523 997 $aUNINA