Understanding Pornographic Fiction
Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception
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Beschreibung
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.
Argues that modern Western sexual pornographic narrative fiction emerged as a distinct genre in eighteenth-century England, descending from literary obscenity Hypothesizes a causal-historical relationship between Max Weber’s Protestant ethic and this genre of fiction Adopts a genealogical approach to the problem of accounting for the emergence of pornographic fiction in the modern West
Autor*in
Charles Nussbaum
Themen in »Understanding Pornographic Fiction«
Pornography obscenity sex violence self-deception Protestant ethic speech acts moral psychology discourse fiction morality protestantism Puritan resistance understanding