Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard -- The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography -- Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior -- Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere -- Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction -- Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais -- Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau -- Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud -- Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail
Summary
Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particular the theme of ""female fetishism"" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing
Analysis
Literature: history & criticism
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-266) and index
Notes
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