Overview
- Argues that modern Western sexual pornographic narrative fiction emerged as a distinct genre in eighteenth-century England, descending from literary obscenity
- Hypothesizes a causal-historical relationship between Max Weber’s Protestant ethic and this genre of fiction
- Adopts a genealogical approach to the problem of accounting for the emergence of pornographic fiction in the modern West
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Book Title: Understanding Pornographic Fiction
Book Subtitle: Sex, Violence, and Self-Deception
Authors: Charles O. Nussbaum
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137556769
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55675-2Published: 25 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-57979-2Published: 29 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55676-9Published: 13 April 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 178
Topics: Philosophy of Language, Literary Theory, Sexual Behavior, Aesthetics, Ethics