Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

Nussbaum, Charles

This work defends two main theses. First, modern Western pornographic fiction functions as a self-deceptive vehicle for sexual or blood-lustful arousal; and second, that its emergence owes as much to Puritan Protestantism and its inner- or this-worldly asceticism as does the emergence of modern rationalized capitalism.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2015-10-25

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137556752

DOI: 10.1057/9781137556769

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 178