About this title: This elegantly written book is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to their nineteenth-century sources, drawing on the music, literature, and thought of the period to show how normal identity both promotes and rationalizes violence against women. To make his case, Kramer uses operatic lovedeaths, Beethoven's 'Kreutzer Sonata' and the Tolstoy novella named after it; the writings of Walt Whitman and Alfred Lord Tennyson, psychoanalysis, and the logic of dreams. In formal and ...
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Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2000-07-07
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Edition: 1st edition
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 2000-07-07
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: Very good. Very minimal damage to the cover (no holes or tears, only minimal scuff marks), in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, minimal to no highlighting/under. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: 7-7-00
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: FINE. Superb, crisp, clean, unread paperback with very light shelfwear to the covers and publisher's mark to one edge-GREAT! 0.91 lbs. read more
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: As New. As New Dustjackets. 6 x 8" A solid copy, As New; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ read more
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Univ of California Press, Berkeley
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: As New. As New Dustjackets. 6 x 8" A solid copy, As New; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: University of California Press, USA
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 290 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. In this brillant extended essay, Lawernce Kramer once again brings his formidable skills as a literary critic and musicologist to bear on nineteenth-century culture. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780520224896ISBN:0520224892
Description: New. After the Lovedeath is a bold attempt to reinterpret the nature of sexual violence and to imagine the possibility of overcoming it. Lawrence Kramer traces today's sexual identities to the their nineteenth-century sources. He draws on the music, liter... read more
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