Pleasure and pain in nineteenth-century French literature and culture

Evans, David, 1976- (Added Author). Griffiths, Kate (College teacher) (Added Author).

Summary: From Sade at one end of the nineteenth century to Freud at the other, via many French novelists and poets, pleasure and pain become ever more closely entwined. Whereas the inseparability of these themes has hitherto been studied from isolated perspectives, such as psychoanalysis, sadism and sado-masochism, melancholy, or post-structuralist textual jouissance, the originality of this collaborative volume lies in its exploration of how pleasure and pain function across a broader range of contexts. The essays collected here demonstrate how the complex relationship between pleasure and pain plays.

Record details

ISBN: 9781441603524 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1441603522 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789401206624
ISBN: 9401206627
ISBN: 9042025026
ISBN: 9789042025028
ISBN: 9042025026
ISBN: 9789042025028
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (286 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	List of Illustrations; Introduction; Part I The Novel; Jouir / souffrir: le sensible et la fiction; Balzac's Convivial Narrations: Intoxication and its Discourse in La Comédie humaine; The Zero-Sum Game of Providential Pain: Balzac's L'Envers de l'histoire contemporaine; Part II Crime and Punishment; L'Affaire Lacenaire ou les jouissances de l'exhibitionnisme criminel au temps du romantisme; Le sex-appeal de la Veuve: guillotine et fantasmes romantiques; Le 'bonheur dans le crime': le plaisir de perdre et de se perdre chez Barbey d'Aurevilly; Part III Écritures Féminines.
Language Note:	Articles in English and French.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.