Author : Charles Nussbaum
Publisher : Springer
Release : 2016-04-13
ISBN-13 : 1137556765
Page : 178 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 from 765 voters
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.