Frost, Laura Catherine, 1967-

Sex drives : fantasies of fascism in literary modernism / Laura Frost. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2002. - viii, 197 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-189) and index.

Introduction: "Fascinating Fascism" -- Fascism and Sadomasochism: The Origins of an Erotics -- The Libidinal Politics of D. H. Lawrence's "Leadership Novels" -- The Surreal Swastikas of Georges Bataille and Hans Bellmer -- Beauty and the Boche: Propaganda and the Sexualized Enemy in Vercors's Silence of the Sea -- Horizontal Treason: Jean Genet's Funeral Rites -- "Every woman adores a Fascist": Marguerite Duras, Sylvia Plath, and Feminist Visions of Fascism -- Conclusion: "This Cellar of the Present" Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6.

Reference



0801438942 (alk. paper) 0801487641 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2001003179


Fascism in literature.
Sex in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century

PN56.F35 / F76 2002

809.93358

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