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The perverse gaze of sympathy : sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911
- Title
- The perverse gaze of sympathy : sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 / Laura Hinton.
- Author
- Hinton, Laura.
- Publication
- Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR830.S45 H56 1999 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 279 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
- Uniform Title
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
- Subject
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
- James, Henry, 1843-1916
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
- Andrae, A
- Clarissa (Richardson, Samuel)
- Éducation sentimentale (Flaubert, Gustave)
- Portrait of a lady (James, Henry)
- Wuthering Heights (Brontë, Emily)
- English fiction > History and criticism
- Sentimentalism in literature
- Television criticism > United States
- Sadomasochism in literature
- Rape victims in literature
- Feminism and literature
- Sympathy in literature
- Women and literature
- Sadomasochism
- English fiction
- Feminism and literature
- Rape victims in literature
- Sadomasochism
- Sadomasochism in literature
- Sentimentalism in literature
- Sympathy in literature
- Television criticism
- Women and literature
- Englisch
- Geschichte
- Sadomasochismus
- Roman
- Roman anglais > Histoire et critique
- Sentimentalisme (littérature)
- Féminisme et littérature
- Sadomasochisme > Dans la littérature
- United States
- Englisch
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-272) and index.
- Contents
- The failed mirror of sympathy -- Clarissa through the epistolary key-hole -- A masochistic spectator's sentimental education: the "illusion of reality" in Flaubert's L'education sentimentale -- Giving Isabel an "Ado" (Adieu): sympathy and sadomasochism in James's preface to the portrait of a lady -- Sentimental nature in Wuthering Heights: or William Wyler meets Emily Brontë on the Yorkshire Moors -- Excessive women's sadomasochistic sentiments: maternal-melodrama fetishism in imitation of life and the TV talkshow Sally Jessy Raphaël.
- ISBN
- 0791443396
- 9780791443392
- 079144340X
- 9780791443408
- LCCN
- 99028288
- OCLC
- ocm41096355
- 41096355
- SCSB-14512965
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library