00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862036109 Buklod 20160830161939.0 g||| | || || ta 160830t19991999nyua rab s001 0|eng d 079144340X (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780791443408 (pbk. : alk. paper) (iLib)UPBAG-00021736680 DLC BAG rda eng PR 830 S45 H56 1999 Hinton, Laura author. The perverse gaze of sympathy sadomasochistic sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 Laura Hinton. Albany, New York State University of New York Press ©1999. xiii, 279 pages illustrations 23 cm SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-272) and index. The failed mirror of sympathy -- Clarissa through the epistolary key-hole -- A masochistic spectator's sentimental education: the "illusion of reality" in Flaubert's L'education sentimentale -- Giving Isabel an "Ado" (Adieu): sympathy and sadomasochism in James's preface to the portrait of a lady -- Sentimental nature in Wuthering Heights: or William Wyler meets Emily Brontë on the Yorkshire Moors -- Excessive women's sadomasochistic sentiments: maternal-melodrama fetishism in imitation of life and the TV talkshow Sally Jessy Raphaël. "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 persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference." -- Jacket. 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. FO UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN PR 830 S45 H56 1999 Book