Emmanuelle de Maupassant, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/emmanuelledemaupassant/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:33:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Sex and Horror in Gothic fiction https://booksbywomen.org/sex-and-horror-in-gothic-fiction-by-emmanuelle-de-maupassant/ https://booksbywomen.org/sex-and-horror-in-gothic-fiction-by-emmanuelle-de-maupassant/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:29:52 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20890 A good ‘scare’ is a wonderful aphrodisiac. Horror prickles our skin, and works icy fingers through our blood. It demands a visceral reaction. How delicious is the sensation of fear: an echo of carnal delight. It’s hard to say where pain ends and pleasure begins in Gothic fiction, in those dangerous undercurrents, on the razor […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/sex-and-horror-in-gothic-fiction-by-emmanuelle-de-maupassant/feed/ 0 20890 Women Writing the Erotic: Sexual Themes in Fiction https://booksbywomen.org/women-writing-the-erotic-sexual-themes-in-fiction-by-emmanuelledemaupassant/ https://booksbywomen.org/women-writing-the-erotic-sexual-themes-in-fiction-by-emmanuelledemaupassant/#respond Sun, 19 Mar 2017 04:51:38 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=18562 Love, yearning, loss, truth and deceit, freedom and constraint: these themes have long occupied a place in our literary canon. From classical literature, we’re familiar with the torment between Cathy and Heathcliff, and between Jane and Rochester. Within the subtext of these two classic stories of love, lies a narration of sex and sexual desire, […]

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