Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France / Emily Apter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1991Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©1991Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)Content type:
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  • 9781501722707
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Contents:
Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard -- The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography -- Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior -- Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere -- Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction -- Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais -- Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau -- Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud -- Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail.
Summary: Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particular the theme of ""female fetishism"" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing
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Fetishism in theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard -- The epistemology of perversion: from pathology to pathography -- Cabinet secrets: peep shows, prostitution, and bric-a-bracomania in the fin-de-siecle interior -- Unmasking the masquerade: fetishism and femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere -- Splitting hairs: female fetishism and postpartum sentimentality in Maupassant's fiction -- Mystical pathography: a case of maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais -- Hysterical vision: the scopophilic garden from Monet to Mirbeau -- Master narratives/servant texts: representing the maid from Flaubert to Freud -- Stigma indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the deviant detail.

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Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French culture, and in particular the theme of ""female fetishism"" in the context of the feminine culture of mourning, collecting, and dressing

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