Ordinary masochisms : agency and desire in Victorian and modernist fiction /
"Revealing how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, Jennifer Mitchell shows that characters in these texts achieve self-definition and empowerment by pursuing and performing pain, defying heteron...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2020]
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| Summary: | "Revealing how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, Jennifer Mitchell shows that characters in these texts achieve self-definition and empowerment by pursuing and performing pain, defying heteronormative and patriarchal gender dynamics"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 215 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813066677 0813066670 |