Feminizing the Fetish : Psychoanalysis and Narrative Obsession in Turn-of-the Century France / / Emily Apter.
Shoes, gloves, umbrellas, cigars that are not just objects-the topic of fetishism seems both bizarre and inevitable. In this venturesome and provocative book, Emily Apter offers a fresh account of the complex relationship between representation and sexual obsession in turn-of-the-century French cult...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 1991. ©1991. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 1991 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1. Fetishism in Theory: Marx, Freud, Baudrillard
- CHAPTER 2. The Epistemology of Perversion: From Pathology to Pathography
- CHAPTER 3. Cabinet Secrets : Peep Shows, Prostitution, and Bric-a-bracomania in the Fin-de-siecle Interior
- CHAPTER 4. Unmasking the Masquerade: Fetishism and Femininity from the Goncourt Brothers to Joan Riviere
- CHAPTER 5. Splitting Hairs: Female Fetishism and Postpartum Sentimentality in Maupassant's Fiction
- CHAPTER 6. Mystical Pathography: A Case of Maso-fetishism in the Goncourts' Madame Gervaisais
- CHAPTER 7. Hysterical Vision: The Scopophilic Garden from Monet to Mirbeau
- CHAPTER 8. Master Narratives/Servant Texts: Representing the Maid from Flaubert to Freud
- CHAPTER 9. Stigma Indelebile: Zola, Gide, and the Deviant Detail
- Conclusion
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Index