 | Sublime Surrender: Male Masochism at the Fin-de-siècle When Heinrich Heine left his sick bed in 1848 and stumbled to the Louvre to fall before a statue of the goddess of beauty and lie in the pitying, cold glance she seemed to cast on his prostrate body, he defined a recurring motif of the second half of... Suzanne R. Stewart is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. |
