Gender reconstructions : pornography and perversions in literature and culture / edited by Cindy L. Carlson, Robert L. Mazzola, Susan M. Bernardo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlson, Cindy L., 1953-

Mazzola, Robert L.

Bernardo, Susan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex in literature.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Erotic literature--History and criticism.

Erotic literature.

Physical Description:

xiv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, Hants ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2002]

Contents:

1 'When female weakness triumphs': Torture and Perversion in Four Plays by Hrotsvit of Gandersheim / Martine van Elk 1

2 Clothing Naked Desire in Marlowe's Hero and Leander / Cindy L. Carlson 25

3 Seductive Confession in Mary Shelley's Mathilda / Susan M. Bernardo 42

4 Villette and the Perversions of Feminine Identity / Eleanor Salotto 53

5 Abjecting Freud: Masculinity, Maternity, and Perversion / Deborah Caslav Covino 76

6 The Gaze and its Specular Perversions: Marcel Duchamp's Etant donnes / Ernestine Daubner 92

7 Sade's Woman: Essential Pornogony and Virtual Embodiment / Robert L. Mazzola 108

8 'On the Beach of Elsewhere': Angela Carter's Moral Pornography and the Critique of Gender Archetypes / Gregory J. Rubinson 125

9 Perverse Writing-Maternity and Monarchy: Fictocriticism and Exorbitant, Plural Bodies / Heather B. Kerr 148

10 White Trash Lesbianism: Dorothy Allison's Queer Politics / Kelly L. Thomas 167

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 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0754602869

OCLC:

46315006