Imperial Masochism : British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class.
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Imperial Masochism : British Fiction, Fantasy, and Social Class.
Yazar:
Kucich, John.
ISBN:
9781400827404
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (217 pages)
İçerik:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Texts -- INTRODUCTION: Fantasy and Ideology -- Masochism in Context -- What Is Masochistic Fantasy? -- Multiple Masochisms -- CHAPTER ONE: Melancholy Magic: Robert Louis Stevenson's Evangelical Anti-Imperialism -- Masochistic Splitting in the Scottish Novels -- Evangelicalism: Pain Is Power -- Rewriting Social Class at the Periphery: South Seas Tales -- Racial Projections -- Anti-Imperialist Euphoria in the Samoan Civil War -- The Reversibility of Masochistic Politics -- CHAPTER TWO: Olive Schreiner's Preoedipal Dreams: Feminism, Class, and the South African War -- The Clash of Pleasure Economies in The Story of an African Farm -- New Woman Feminism -- The Regeneration of Middle-Class Culture -- Fantasizing about the Boers -- Domestic Middle-Class Identity and the War over the War -- Feminist Masochism, Class Regeneration, and Critical Disavowal -- CHAPTER THREE: Sadomasochism and the Magical Group: Kipling's Middle-Class Imperialism -- Sadomasochism, Bullying, and Omnipotence in Stalky & Co. -- Magical Groups: Bullies, Victims, and Bystanders -- Kim: The Magical Group as Imperial Agent -- Magical Professionals in the Short Fiction -- Evangelicalism and Middle-Class Unilateralism -- Class Hostility, Classlessness, and the Magical Middle Class -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Masochism of the Craft: Conrad's Imperial Professionalism -- Varieties of Colonial Omnipotence -- "In the Destructive Element Immerse" -- Empathy as a Narcissistic Disorder -- Class Magic and Class Melancholia -- Professional Redemption -- Masochistic Imperialism -- CONCLUSION -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Özet:
British imperialism's favorite literary narrative might seem to be conquest. But real British conquests also generated a surprising cultural obsession with suffering, sacrifice, defeat, and melancholia. "There was," writes John Kucich, "seemingly a different crucifixion scene marking the historical gateway to each colonial theater." In Imperial Masochism, Kucich reveals the central role masochistic forms of voluntary suffering played in late-nineteenth-century British thinking about imperial politics and class identity. Placing the colonial writers Robert Louis Stevenson, Olive Schreiner, Rudyard Kipling, and Joseph Conrad in their cultural context, Kucich shows how the ideological and psychological dynamics of empire, particularly its reorganization of class identities at the colonial periphery, depended on figurations of masochism. Drawing on recent psychoanalytic theory to define masochism in terms of narcissistic fantasies of omnipotence rather than sexual perversion, the book illuminates how masochism mediates political thought of many different kinds, not simply those that represent the social order as an opposition of mastery and submission, or an eroticized drama of power differentials. Masochism was a powerful psychosocial language that enabled colonial writers to articulate judgments about imperialism and class. The first full-length study of masochism in British colonial fiction, Imperial Masochism puts forth new readings of this literature and shows the continued relevance of psychoanalysis to historicist studies of literature and culture.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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