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The perverse gaze of sympathy : sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 / Laura Hinton.
Van Pelt Library PR830.S45 H56 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hinton, Laura.
- Series:
- SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English fiction--History and criticism.
- English fiction.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Éducation sentimentale.
- Flaubert, Gustave.
- Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848. Wuthering Heights.
- Brontë, Emily.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916. Portrait of a lady.
- James, Henry.
- Richardson, Samuel, 1689-1761. Clarissa.
- Richardson, Samuel.
- Television criticism--United States.
- Television criticism.
- Sadomasochism in literature.
- Feminism and literature.
- Sympathy in literature.
- Sadomasochism.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [1999]
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Failed Mirror of Sympathy 1
- 1 Clarissa through the Epistolary Key-hole 35
- 2 A Masochistic Spectator's Sentimental Education: The "Illusion of Reality" in Flaubert's L'Education sentimentale 75
- 3 Giving Isabel an "Ado" (Adieu): Sympathy and Sadomasochism in James's Preface to The Portrait of a Lady 121
- 4 Sentimental Nature in Wuthering Heights; or, William Wyler Meets Emily Bronte on the Yorkshire Moors 147
- 5 Excessive Women's Sadomasochistic Sentiments: Maternal-Melodrama Fetishism in Imitation of Life and the TV Talkshow Sally Jessy Raphael 189
- 6 The Spectacular Survival of Sympathy on Rescue 911 219.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791443396
- 079144340X
- OCLC:
- 41096355
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