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American literature--History and criticism, Teacher-student relationships in literature, English literature--History and criticism, Education in literature, Sex in literature.
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1997
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PS169.T37E76 1997eb
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810/.7
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American literature--History and criticism, Teacher-student relationships in literature, English literature--History and criticism, Education in literature, Sex in literature.
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The Erotics of Instruction
Regina Barreca and Deborah Denenholz Morse, editors
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University Press of New England, Hanover, NH 03755 1997 by University Press of New England All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 CIP data appear at the end of the book
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Contents
Preface
vii
Acknowledgments
xix
Contraband Appetites: Wit, Rage, and Romance in the Classroom
Regina Barreca
1
The Intimacies of Instruction
John Glavin
12
Hayley, Roz, and Me
Rebecca A. Pope
28
The Teachings of Small Smothered Lives: The Erotics of Instruction in Henry James's The Turn of the Screw
Vanessa D. Dickerson
52
Instructive Energies
Mary Ann Caws
71
Eroticism Is a Two-Way Street, and I'm Working Both Sides
James R. Kincaid
81
Bartleby and the Professor
Gerhard Joseph
94
Educating Louis: Teaching the Victorian Father in Trollope's He Knew He Was Right
Deborah Denenholz Morse
98
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A Jamesian Sentimental Education: What Maisie Knew: French Literature, Sacred History
Robert Polhemus
116
"With a Man There Is a Difference": The Rejection of Female Mentoring in Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls
Abby H. P. Werlocka
127
Making Love to the Gods: Four Women and Their Affairs with Education
Dranda Trimble
147
Truth or Consequences: Mamet's Oleanna in the Real World
Montana Katz
156
But I Thought He Liked My Paper
Myra Goldberg
166
List of Contributors
177
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Preface
The goal of this volume is to provide a window to the world of teacher/student relationships, and to raise issues concerning eroticism and the very process and practice of instruction. Each of the essays in this collection confronts the most provocativeand often least discussedaspects of the seductions of the classroom. Whether it is perceived as an instrument of dominance or a mode of revelation, the educational process involves an emotionally suffused link between human beings. Its intimacies form a tangled web of intellectual aspiration and erotic desire. In our culture, the idea of education is inextricably bound up with constructions of power, governance, and an erotically charged allegiance or submission to the father- (or, with increasingly frequency, mother-) teacher.
In response to a legitimate and necessary awakening to the potentially damaging gender dynamics of the places in which we work and study, we have perhaps denied a literary tradition that explores the fertile (so to speak) possibilities of the mentor-pupil relation. Erotic attraction in the classroom can lead to sexual harassment, but it does not necessarily or inevitably lead to it. The desire for knowledge, although it often includes erotic speculation about the mentor or student, is a much more complicated and enveloping impulse, an admirable and necessary longing. The passion for learning encompasses a range of feelings and experiences, central to which, quite often, is an extraordinary relationship between the possessor of seemingly arcane knowledge and the one who yearns to possess this seeming wisdom. And the intricacies of these relations are as complex and various as other significant human bonds.
All the writers in this volume have recognized and struggled with the intimate and at times erotic relationship between teacher and student, a connection that is charged with all the electricity of shared discovery of the mind embodied in a literary text, the union of the author's, the teacher's, and the student's intellects. Little wonder, then, that the ardor
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with which we explore the textual body might give rise to erotic fantasies. What needs to be recognized and acknowledged is, first, that acts of learning and teaching are acts of desire and passion. Second, the personal history that both student and teacher bring to the place of instruction informs the tenor of the relationship, as the following essays attest. It matters if one is, for instance, a black woman teaching at a small white college in the South, as the introduction to Vanessa Dickerson's thoughtful article makes clear. In a very different instance, Deborah Morse's essay explores the interpenetrations of the personal and the pedagogical as she tells how the death of her physician father impelled her search for the perfect father/mentor, both in life and in the fiction of Anthony Trollope.
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