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Reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behaviour, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In these texts, Jennifer Mitchell highlights everyday examples of characters deriving pleasure from pain.

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      Publisher: MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida
      Publication Date: 10/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780813066677, 978-0813066677
      ISBN10: 0813066670
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      Book Synopsis
      Reveals how literary works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries frequently challenged the prevailing view of masochism as a deviant behaviour, an opinion supported by many sexologists and psychoanalysts in the 1800s. In these texts, Jennifer Mitchell highlights everyday examples of characters deriving pleasure from pain.

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