| Description |
xiv, 208 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. 'When female weakness triumphs': torture and perversion in four plays by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim / Martine van Elk -- 2. Clothing naked desire in Marlowe's Hero and Leander / Cindy L. Carlson -- 3. Seductive confession in Mary Shelley's Mathilda / Susan M. Bernardo -- 4. Villette and the perversions of feminine identity / Eleanor Salotto -- 5. Abjecting Freud: masculinity, maternity, and perversion / Deborah Caslav Covino -- 6. The gaze and its specular perversions: Marcel Duchamp's Étant donnés / Ernestine Daubner -- 7. Sade's woman: essential pornography and virtual embodiment / Robert L. Mazzola -- 8. 'On the beach of elsewhere': Angela Carter's moral pornography and the critique of gender archetypes / Gregory J. Rubinson -- 9. Perverse writing - maternity and monarchy: fictocriticism and exorbitant, plural bodies / Heather B. Kerr -- 10. White trash lesbianism: Dorothy Allison's queer politics / Kelly L. Thomas -- 11. The efficacy of shock for feminist politics: Kathy Acker's Blood and guts in high school and Donald Barthelme's Snow White / Ann Bomberger |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex in literature.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Erotic literature -- History and criticism.
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| Author |
Carlson, Cindy L., 1953-
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Mazzola, Robert L.
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Bernardo, Susan M.
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| LC no. |
2001022169 |
| ISBN |
0754602869 |
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