Abstract
Written in letter form, Love’s Cross-Currents: A Year’s Letters, A. C. Swinburne’s only completed novel, mimics the epistolary fiction of the eighteenth century. This article argues that Swinburne exploits this genre’s engagement with spectacles of suffering to afford his readers access to sadomasochistic pleasures.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 0 |
| Pages (from-to) | 141-157 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Mosaic |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2017 |
Keywords
- Swinburne
- epistolary fiction
- Victorian fiction
- sado-masochism