more extensive and unaffected pleasure

[lotesse]

Why, when discussing eighteenth-nineteenth(twentieth-)century anti-novel rhetoric, does no one address the discursive parallels with injunctions against onanism/masturbation? (and does anyone know of a book that does? because I would totally read that book.)

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[oursin]

That article would be even more compelling if Sedgwick had actually cited texts contemporary with Jane Austen - what annoys me (being a historian, not a lit person) about that piece is that she picks on French texts from decades later rather than someone like e.g. Beddoes.