Understanding Pornographic Fiction: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception

By Charles Nussbaum

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349579793
• ISBN13: 9781349579792
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"