Naturalism's ideology and aesthetics were undoubtedly shaped by the historical changes that announced the advent of the twen- tieth century: the large-scale deployment of an urbanite consumer mar- ket (that appealed primarily to women and was accompanied by a new pleasure ideology), the arrival of the New Woman (who claimed her sexual and professional rights at the turn of the century), and the en [...] In the eighteenth century, however, Sade's role was a transitional one: Sade associated sexuality with the blood of the nobility, but sex was in the process of becoming the preoccupation of the newly emerging bour- geoisie, which saw sexuality as a field of pleasure that had to be regu- lated and kept healthy. [...] According to Foucault, psychoanalysis displaced the biological degenerescence theory as the dominant discourse at the turn of the century: And the strange position of psychiatry at the end of the nineteenth cen- tury would be hard to comprehend if one did not see the rupture it brought about in the great system of degenerescence: it resumed the project of a medical technology appropriate for deali [...] Here, the majority of the social democratic delegates openly protested against the tendency in naturalism to emphasize the biologi- cal, instinctive, and pathological as their version of a truthful represen- tation of human nature.9 As a result of such widely publicized debates, traditional German naturalism that had followed the degenerescence model in the 1880s was to be replaced by the psycholo [...] Thus the proliferation of discourses on sexuality in the course of the last three centuries has gone hand in hand with the proliferation of sites of power and control over the body.
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 12
- I. Raturalism and Foucault 24
- 1. Naturalism's History of Sexuality 26
- 2. "Liberating" Sexuality 38
- 3. Power and the Docile Body 52
- II. Dreiser, Raturalism and the Rew Woman 68
- 4. Sister Carrie: Sexualizing the Docile Body 70
- 5. Female Sexuality and the Naturalist Crisis: "Emanuela" 94
- III. Deconstructing the Raturalist Prostitute 112
- 6. Fanny Essler: A Sexual Picaresque 114
- 7. Fanny's Sexual Confession 130
- 8. Fanny Essler in (A) Search for America 144
- IV. Eroticizing Bourgeois Power 162
- 9. The Male Body of Power: The Titan 164
- 10. Naturalism's Specula(riza)tion: The "Genius" 184
- V. Grove's Sexualization of Patriarchal Power 196
- 11. Sovereign Power, Bio-Power and the "Inevitable Form" in The Master of the Mill 198
- 12. The Father's Seduction and the Daughter's Rebellion 218
- 13. Conclusion 244
- Bibliography 252
- Index 268
- A 268
- B 268
- C 268
- D 269
- E 269
- F 269
- G 270
- H 270
- I 271
- K 271
- L 271
- M 271
- N 271
- O 272
- P 272
- R 272
- S 272
- T 273
- V 273
- W 273
- Y 273
- Z 273
