A Man with a Maid: And Other Entertainments

by Anonymous

Seizing the Word offers a comprehensive reading of the work of W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963), a pivotal figure in the intellectual life of nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. As a historian, journalist, novelist, poet, and social and literary critic, this extraordinary man profoundly influenced our understanding of the African American experience. Following his initial discussion of Du Bois's earliest writing, Keith E. Byerman posits The Souls of Black Folk (1903) as a master text that established the tropes of doubleconsciousness and the veil for which Du Bois is known, and incorporated the various genres through which he voiced his understanding of the world. The remainder of the study discusses Du Bois's works as elaborations of the master text within and against the contemporary discourses on history, art, and self. Throughout Byerman examines the connections between the personal and intellectual aspects of Du Bois's life to reveal the intense engagement with moral and ideological issues found even in texts that Du Bois represented as "objective." At the same time, in order to present some of the complexity and conflict that runs through Du Bois's work, Byerman identifies the tensions and patterns in Du Bois's writing that cross disciplines or genres. Instead of focusing on one aspect of Du Bois's career, Seizing the Word attempts a more synthetic approach, primarily by examining Du Bois in terms of contemporary literary and cultural theory, most notably Lacan's Law of the Father and Erikson's work on identity.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0786705493
• ISBN13: 9780786705498
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 752 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 4.2" x 6.8"

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Book Description

FROM BACK OF BOOK: This novel represents the highest moment in the nineteenth-century sexual imagination. An unabashed portrait of classic erotic drama, it is considered by critics of the form to be a wholly satisfying reading experience. FANNY HILL'S DAUGHTER Fanny Hill was as beautiful as she was bawdy. For two hundred years, readers have enjoyed learning of her exploits. Now Fanny is vividly reincarnated in the prodigal person of her only child, a young woman whose inherited skills of seduction made her the most desired and most envied female in London. HAREM NIGHTS A stranded English nobleman is rescued by the beautiful ladies of Pasha's harem. Alone with nine alluring and uninhibited women, he is presented with a rare opportunity to realize his most secret fantasies.

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sexiest work of literature,film or anything i've ever experienced.i've thought about the powerful images every day for years,

This is the most arousing book you will ever read.

Move over D.H. Lawrence and Titanic! The primary story, A Man with A Maid, an underground novel of the Victorian era, is a gentle and loving novel with mild bondage. The novel works on a lot of levels and actually has deep insights into the nature of sexual desire. Alice, a charming but rather frigid young lady has been raised with all the hypocracy of the Victorian era and doesn't even admit to herself the smouldering sensuality of her body and subconscious mind. She visits the man but is stiffly formal and pretends she has no interest in the man. He knows better. He lures her in and traps her in a snuggery -- an elaborate padded cell previously designed to restrain the insane, where nobody will hear her scream -- and he ties her up with cords and leaves her suspended. She is gradually forced to admit to her burning sensuality as he tortures her with pleasure (like feathers against her naked, tied-up body). He doesn't release her, yet he doesn't take her either; instead he tortures her with pleasure not pain until she can't stand it anymore. She finally begs for him... and he forces her to admit to herself that she really has sexual desires equal to his, that the Victorian era could not allow any lady to publicly admit to.... I was hung up about sex and read this as in college, it released me from my own inhibitions from childhood.Order two copies! Read it aloud with your honey over the phone, or in person and you two will not be able to keep your hands off each other! Or give it to a friend that you wish to be intimate with, and I guarantee it will provoke them!

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I picked this book up on the way to a 18 hour flight. once I got on the plane I said oh well here goes. ( The book really does not tell you what its about on the cover) Needless to say I was upset my flight was over. Good thing I was flying to meet my husband!!!!!!!!!!!