Olive Schreiner, Masochism, and Omnipotence: Strategies of a Preoedipal Politics

From: Novel | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Late-Victorian culture was saturated with masochistic phenomena-self-destructive New Woman heroines; the "winter" Dionysianism of Beardsley, Swinburne, Pater, and other decadents; the imperial suffering glorified by Kipling, Haggard, and Doyle; the self-flagellations of Hopkins' Catholicism; even the self-martyring spectacle of the Oscar Wilde trials and of De Profundis (1897). Masochism constituted one of the many "nether worlds" that fin-de-siecle culture explored as revitalizing alternatives to what seemed the increasing hollowness of Victorian society. If Terry Eagleton is right that ...

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