The perverse gaze of sympathy : sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911

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The perverse gaze of sympathy : sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911

Title remainder

sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911

Statement of responsibility

Laura Hinton

Creator

• Hinton, Laura

Subject

• Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880
• Sadomasochism in literature
• Television criticism -- United States
• Women and literature
• Rape victims in literature
• Sentimentalism in literature
• James, Henry, 1843-1916
• Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848
• English fiction -- History and criticism
• Feminism and literature
• Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761
• Sadomasochism
• Sympathy in literature

Language

eng

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

Member of

• SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

823.009/353

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR830.S45

LC item number

H56 1999

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory