Pleasure and pain in nineteenth-century French literature and culture / edited by David Evans and Kate Griffiths.
| Other author | Evans, David, 1976- |
| Other author | Griffiths, Kate (College teacher) |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008. |
| Description | 286 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. |
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| Series | Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 324 Faux titre ; no. 324. ^A474480 |
| Contents | Part I The novel -- Jouir/souffrir: le sensible et la fiction / Henri Mitterand -- Balzac's convivial narrations : intoxication and its discourse in 'La comédie humaine' / Michael Tilby -- The zero-sum game of providential pain :Balzac's 'L'envers de l'histoire contemporaine / Francesco Manzini -- Part II Crime and punishment -- L'affaire Lacenaire ou les jouissances de l'exhibitionnisme criminel au temps du romantisme / Anne-Emmanuelle Demartini -- Le sex-appeal de la Veuve : guillotine et fantasmes romantiques / Loïc Guyon -- Le 'bonheur dans le crime': le plaisir de perdre et de se perdre chez Barbey d'Aurevilly / Natalia Leclerc -- Part III Écritures féminines -- Marie Cappele Lafarge ou l'écriture de la douleur Anna Norris -- Malvina Blanchecotte and 'la douleur chantée' : the creation of a female poetic self -- Sexual healing : power and pleasure in fin-de-siècle women's writing Rachel Mesch -- Part IV Defining sexual experience -- La rage du plaisir et la rage de la douleur: lesbian pleasure and suffering in fin-de siècle French literature and sexology / Gretchen Schultz -- Pathologizing female sexual frigidity in Fin-de siècle France, or how absence was made into a thing / Alison Moore -- Redefining sexual excess as a medical disorder : fin de siècle representations of hysteria and spematorrhoea / Elizabeth Stephens -- Part V Aesthetics, beauty and the visual arts -- What is ugly?Taine, Allen, Moreau / Rae Beth Gordon -- 'If faut souffrir pour être belle' : pain and beauty in prose fiction / Carol Rifelj -- Creative crucifixions: the artist as Christ in nineteenth-century France and Belgium / Claire Moran. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Articles in English and French. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Pleasure and pain in nineteenth-century French literature and culture. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9789042025028 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 9042025026 (paperback) |