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Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Foster, Dennis A. (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature - Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Foster, Dennis A. (Southern Methodist University, Texas)
Linking classic American literature to contemporary popular culture, Sublime Enjoyment argues that the rational systems of normal social life are motivated and sustained by 'perverse' desires. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster shows how longings are linked to social forces.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | November 13, 1997 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521584371 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 194 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 14 mm · 412 g |
| Language | English |
| Series Editor | Gelpi, Albert (Stanford University, California) |
| Series Editor | Posnock, Ross |