Sade's Theatre: Pleasure, Vision, Masochism

by Thomas Wynn

Sade's rehabilitation as a major Enlightenment writer has hitherto not extended to a re-evaluation of his dramatic works. With a theoretical framework inspired by psychoanalysis and dramatic theory, and attentive to eighteenth-century theoretical debates, Thomas Wynn demonstrates the value of these neglected works. This is the first study to consider the nature and implications of Sade's dramatic aesthetic, and to define the erotic quality of spectatorship...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0729409031
• ISBN13: 9780729409032
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation in Association with Liver
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"