Posts Tagged: desire

The range of psychoses related in Lolita is relentless.  The entire text could be a document in Peiss’s textbook, and wading through these murky waters becomes an exercise in suspicion.  Humbert’s mixture of paranoia and recklessness makes me root for his success in keeping his and Lo’s anonymiy despite my increasing disgust and fury with […]

Identity and Sexuality in the Anglo-American Colonies In this week’s Peiss readings we get some concrete facts and history to support what  Foucault had mentioned in The History of Sexuality – the fact that sexual abnormality was often tolerated by villagers/townspeople during the Puritan era, even though legal codes created by the religious and political […]