Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Sublime Enjoyment: On the Perverse Motive in American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) Book

Linking classic American literature to contemporary popular culture, Sublime Enjoyment argues that the rational systems of normal social life are motivated and sustained by "perverse" desires. This perversity arises from the failure of symbolic satisfactions love, work, success to make us happy, and from our refusal to accept that failure. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster identifies ways that longings are linked to social forces.Read More

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  • 0521108187
  • 9780521108188
  • Dennis A. Foster
  • 9 April 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 196
  • 1
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