Ordinary Masochisms: Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction by Jennifer Mitchell

Ordinary Masochisms: Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction

Jennifer Mitchell

226 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ literary challenging reflective medium-paced
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Ordinary Masochisms reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In t...

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