Sublime Enjoyment : On the Perverse Motive in American Literature

Name: Sublime Enjoyment
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521584371
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ISBN: 9780521584371

by Dennis A. Foster

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Format Hardback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture

ISBN-10 052158437X

ISBN-13 9780521584371

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 13th, 1997

Print length 194 Pages

Weight 415 grams

Dimensions 22.90 x 15.20 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: United States of America, USA Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: from c 1900 -

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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. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster shows how longings are linked to social forces.

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. Hoping to achieve satisfaction, we respond ultimately to situations that evoke older, more primary drives and their attendant emotions. But while a conventional pervert knows exactly what to want, the healthy pervert must find enjoyment inadvertently: in the object of the sublime, in duty and reason, and in the obligations of a 'fun morality'. Examining the ways in which this inadvertence is represented in American literature and culture, Dennis Foster identifies ways in which longings are linked to social forces.

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