Pain, Pleasure and Perversity: Discourses of Suffering in Seventeenth-Century England

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2013 - History - 286 pages
In order to chart the processes by which discourse relating to pain and suffering became marginalized during the period from the Renaissance to the end of the 17th century, this book examines a number of books on the subject translated into English from (mainly) Spanish and Italian.
 

Contents

Constructs of Suffering in SeventeenthCentury england
21
Suffering and Sexuality in Catholic hagiography
61
The Subversion
89
Cruelty and Compassion
115
The Spectacle of Suffering
143
The Sexual Politics of Suffering
167
The erotics of Suffering and Cruelty
189
The emergence of the Dominatrix
213
Bibliography of Works Cited
237
Index
265
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John R. Yamamoto-Wilson is a retired Professor of the Department of English Literature at Sophia University, Tokyo. He has written extensively on issues relating to early modern translations of Catholic literature and the continuance of Catholic culture in post-Reformation England.

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