
Ordinary Masochisms
Agency and Desire in Victorian and Modernist Fiction
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"Revealing how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behavior, Jennifer Mitchell shows that characters in these texts achieve self-definition and empowerment by pursuing and performing pain, defying heteronormative and patriarchal gender dynamics"--