Sadism and masochism in fiction
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Illustration: Fashionable Contrasts (1792) by James Gillray.
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Sadism and masochism in fiction goes as far back as the Medieval "power of women" legends. However, if we consider Michel Foucault's dictum "Sadism ... appeared precisely at the end of the eighteenth century," we should accept that Marquis de Sade (Justine, 1791) was the first author of sadism.
The first description of the masochist fantasy, notably lacking in Sade, comes in Venus in Furs (1870) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
In 1954 the Story of O by Pauline Réage gave voice to female masochism, followed closely by The Image (1956) by Catherine Robbe-Grillet.
In general, the contemporary depiction of sadism and masochism in fiction tends to be portrayed from the viewpoint of masochistic fantasy.
This was also the case in Fifty Shades of Grey (2011) by E. L. James, a best-selling trilogy of novels.
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Overview
Titles are sorted in chronological order.
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland - Includes a detailed description of a mutual flagellation scene between Fanny and an English client.
- The 120 Days of Sodom, Justine (1791) and Juliette (1797) by Marquis de Sade - Are written from an extreme sadistic viewpoint.
- Anti-Justine (1793) by Nicolas-Edme Rétif A response to de Sade's works, using a very similar style to describe a directly opposite political point of view.
- Venus in Furs (1870) by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch - Is essentially one long masochistic fantasy, where the male principal character encourages his mistress to mistreat him. Many of Sacher-Masoch's other works include themes of sadomasochism and female dominance.
- The Torture Garden (1899) by Octave Mirbeau - Has been interpreted as an allegorical examination of western society and human condition.
- Les Onze mille verges (The eleven thousand rods) by Guillaume Apollinaire - written around 1906-1907 (the publication is neither signed nor dated).
- Histoire de l'oeil (Story of the Eye) (1928) by Georges Bataille - A short novel.
- The Story of O (1954) by Pauline Réage - Another classic masochistic novel, this time written by a woman, . In this novel, the female principal character is kept in a chateau and mistreated by a group of men, one of them her official lover. Later, she resumes her normal life while secretly becoming the property of one specific man, a friend of her lover's.
- L'Image (1956) by Catherine Robbe-Grillet, (under the pseudonym Jean de Berg) another French woman. It was made into a 1975 film, The Image, also known as The Punishment of Anne.
- Gordon (1966) by Edith Templeton
- Spanking the Maid (1982) by Robert Coover
- Virginie, Her Two Lives (1982) by John Hawkes
- Nothing Natural (1986) by Jenny Diski
- The Ties that Bind (Le Lien) (1993) by Vanessa Duriès
- Marketplace series of novels by Laura Antoniou
- Writer Anne Rice has produced a number of examples of sado-masochistic fiction, including Exit to Eden and 'The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty novels written under the pseudonym A.N. Roquelaire.
Chronology
The following is a chronological list of notable sadomasochistic literature about or involving BDSM, both fictional and non-fictional. Both written literature and comics are included, but not films or video. Series are listed as one item; where publication date is ill-defined, the earliest date is used.
17th century
- 1639 De Usu Flagrorum
- In Samuel Butler's satirical poem Hudibras (Part II, Canto I, line 833- ) a lady urges the knight to submit to a whipping as proof of his devotion to her. This is the origin of the maxim "Spare the rod and spoil the child", not the Bible as is often thought, although the maxim is clearly based on Proverbs 13:24 ("He that spareth his rod hateth his son.")
18th century
- 1750 Fashionable Lectures
- 1785 The 120 Days of Sodom
- 1791 Justine
- 1795 Aline and Valcour
- 1795 Philosophy in the Bedroom
- 1797 Juliette
19th century
- 1828 The Lustful Turk
- 1830 Exhibition of Female Flagellants
- 1866 The Romance of Chastisement
- 1870 Venus in Furs
- 1873 The Romance of Lust
- 1876 The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant
- 1878 Experimental Lecture
- 1887 The Whippingham Papers
- 1893 Gynecocracy
- 1899 The Memoirs of Dolly Morton
- 1899 The Torture Garden
20th century
- 1907 Sadopaideia
- 1928 Belle de Jour
- 1947 Sweet Gwendoline
- 1948 Shira
- 1954 Nights of Horror
- 1956 The Image
- 1958 Story of O
- 1966 Gor
- 1966 Isabella
- 1973 Gravity's Rainbow
- 1974 Imaginative Sex
- 1975 Willard and His Bowling Trophies: A Perverse Mystery
- 1978 Nine and a Half Weeks
- 1978 Spectator Magazine
- 1981 Coming to Power
- 1982 Against Sadomasochism
- 1983 The Piano Teacher
- 1983 The Sleeping Beauty Quartet
- 1984 1982, Janine
- 1985 Exit to Eden
- 1988 Macho Sluts
- 1990 Something Leather
- 1993 The Ties That Bind
- 1994 Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature
- 1995 The River Ophelia
- 1998 A Defence of Masochism
21st century
- 2001 Kushiel's Legacy series
- 2003 Snakes and Earrings
- 2004 Terminal Avenue
- 2007 L'Étudiante
- 2010 The Marketplace series
- 2011 Fifty Shades of Grey series
- 2011 Sunstone
See also
- BDSM in culture and media
- Sadism and masochism
- Sadism and masochism in novels
- Sadism and masochism in mainstream films
- Sadism and masochism in mainstream drama
- Sadism and masochism in mainstream poetry
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