The Limits of Ferocity: Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion

by Daniel Fuchs and Daniel Fuchs

The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which convey a loathing of middle-class culture or, as the case may be, society itself, in favor of a rebellion often expressed as an aggressive, even apocalyptic, sexuality. The Marquis de Sade is the precursor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082235005X
• ISBN13: 9780822350057
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"