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

"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 per...

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Main Author:	Hinton, Laura (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Albany, New York State University of New York Press ©1999.
Series:	SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory
Subjects:	Flaubert, Gustave > 1821-1880. > Education sentimentale. Bronte, Emily > 1818-1848. > Wuthering Heights. James, Henry > 1843-1916. > Portrait of a lady. Richardson, Samuel > 1689-1761. > Clarissa. 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.