The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature

by Marianne Noble

Book Overview

For 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691009376
• ISBN13: 9780691009377
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"