Pain, pleasure and perversity discourses of suffering in seventeenth-century England
John R. Yamamoto-Wilson (Author)
Luther's 95 Theses begin and end with the concept of suffering, and the question of why a benevolent God allows his creations to suffer remains one of the central issues of religious thought.
286 p.
9781409443957, 9781409443964, 9781409474470, 1409443957, 1409443965, 140947447X
901764561
Contents: Introduction; Part I The Suffering Self: Constructs of suffering in 17th-century England; Suffering and sexuality in Catholic hagiography; Polemic, pornography and romanticism: the subversion of catholic asceticism. Part II The Suffering of Others: Cruelty and compassion; The spectacle of suffering. Part III Suffering and Gender: The sexual politics of suffering; The erotics of suffering and cruelty; The emergence of the dominatrix; Bibliography of works cited; Index.