The Limits of Ferocity
Sexual Aggression and Modern Literary Rebellion
1st Edition
Published on 30. May 2011
416 pages
978-0-8223-9411-2 (ISBN)
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A powerful critique of the revolutionary mentality and sexual aggression represented in the works of authors including D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer.
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Daniel Fuchs is Professor Emeritus of English at the City University of New York's College of Staten Island. He is the author of Saul Bellow: Vision and Revision and The Comic Spirit of Wallace Stevens, both also published by Duke University Press.
Content
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Freud and the Postwar Temper 11
2. Freud and Others on Aggression 24
3. Wilhelm Reich 40
4. Norman O. Brown 53
5. Deleuze and Guattari 67
Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 88
6. The Marquis de Sade 102
7. D. H. Lawrence 145
8. Georges Bataille 194
Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 224
9. Henry Miller 232
Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 271
10. Norman Mailer 293
Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332
Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346
Notes 363
Index 391
Introduction 1
1. Freud and the Postwar Temper 11
2. Freud and Others on Aggression 24
3. Wilhelm Reich 40
4. Norman O. Brown 53
5. Deleuze and Guattari 67
Interchapter. Deleuze and Guattari on Lawrence and Miller 88
6. The Marquis de Sade 102
7. D. H. Lawrence 145
8. Georges Bataille 194
Interchapter. Bataille on Sade 224
9. Henry Miller 232
Interchapter. Miller on Lawrence 271
10. Norman Mailer 293
Interchapter. Mailer on Mailer 332
Conclusion. The Naked and the Clothed 346
Notes 363
Index 391
