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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Gainesville :
University Press of Florida,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction A Tale of Two Terms
- Mythologizing Masochisms
- Villette's Erotic Experimentation
- A Drama in Muslin's Queer Mysticism
- Interlude. Murderous Masochism in The Torture Garden
- The Rainbow's Generational Masochisms
- Quartet's Modernist Muddles
- Conclusion Murderous Masochism in The Comfort of Strangers
- Afterword: Reading Masochisms