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Title: Sensing Violence

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dc:title Sensing Violence
dc:creator Will McMorran
dc:subject Marquis de Sade;Embodied Cognition;Violence;Pedagogy;Translation Studies;Reader Response
dc:description What does reading fictional violence do to us as readers? To find out, this provocative and original book turns to the works of an author synonymous with sexual violence: the Marquis de Sade. Drawing on psychology, cognitive literary studies, and empirical research, it argues that reading is a fundamentally embodied act – and one that implicates us far more than we might like to think in fictional depictions of violence. 
 
This book turns not just to Sade for answers, but to his readers. Where previous studies have focussed either on Sade’s language or his philosophy, this one places the lived experience of actual readers at the heart of its investigations. Taking particular scenes from Sade’s fiction, from a young girl posing as a statue in ‘Eugénie de Franval’ to the brutal rape of the heroine of Justine, this book explores what happens not just on the page but in the minds and bodies of readers as they bring these scenes to life. 
 
Drawing on questionnaires completed by readers of those scenes, and on his own experience as a reader, teacher and translator of Sade, the author challenges the disembodied approach that has dominated Sade studies and literary criticism more broadly over recent decades. This is not just a book about Sade—it’s a radical exploration of what happens to us when we are confronted with scenes of violence. Urgent, accessible, and personal, it offers a new model for understanding reading as a matter of making sensations as well as making sense.
dc:date 2025-09-23T15:29:45Z
dc:rights ©2025 Will McMorran, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Outlines

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TOC Outline

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Abbreviations, References and Translations
  8. List of Figures
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Looking and Touching with Eugénie
    1. Introduction
    2. Before Eugénie: Palincests
    3. Eugénie and Myrrha
    4. Lights, Camera, Reaction
    5. Beyond Eugénie: On Touching Statues
    6. After Valmont: From Fantasy to Perversion
    7. Conclusion
  11. 2. Hearing and Feeling with Justine
    1. Introduction
    2. Scenes of Listening
    3. Reading as Listening
    4. Justine’s Scream
    5. Once More, with Einfühlung
    6. Bad Vibrations
    7. Conclusion
  12. 3. Translating with Sade
    1. Introduction
    2. The Translator’s Body
    3. How Not to Translate Sade
    4. Smelling Silling
    5. Back to Sodom
    6. From Translating to Rerererereading Sade
    7. Conclusion
  13. 4. Teaching with Sade
    1. Introduction
    2. Embodied Pedagogies
    3. Teaching in the Boudoir
    4. Sade in the Classroom
    5. Conclusion
  14. Conclusion
  15. Digital Appendix
  16. Bibliography
    1. Primary Sources
    2. Secondary Sources
  17. Index
  18. About the Team
  19. This book need not end here…
  20. You may also be interested in:
  21. Back cover

Headings Outline

  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations, References and Translations
  • List of Figures
  • Introduction
  • 1. Looking and Touching with Eugénie
    • Introduction
    • Before Eugénie: Palincests
    • Eugénie and Myrrha
    • Lights, Camera, Reaction
    • Beyond Eugénie: On Touching Statues
    • After Valmont: From Fantasy to Perversion
    • Conclusion
  • 2. Hearing and Feeling with Justine
    • Introduction
    • Scenes of Listening
    • Reading as Listening
    • Justine’s Scream
    • Once More, with Einfühlung
    • Bad Vibrations
    • Conclusion
  • 3. Translating with Sade
    • Introduction
    • The Translator’s Body
    • How Not to Translate Sade
    • Smelling Silling
    • Back to Sodom
    • From Translating to Rerererereading Sade
    • Conclusion
  • 4. Teaching with Sade
    • Introduction
    • Embodied Pedagogies
    • Teaching in the Boudoir
    • Sade in the Classroom
    • Conclusion
  • Conclusion
  • Digital Appendix
  • Bibliography
    • Primary Sources
    • Secondary Sources
      • Sade and the Eighteenth Century
      • General Criticism and Theory
      • Translation Studies
      • Pedagogy
      • Sexology, Psychology and Neuroscience
  • Index
  • About the Team
  • This book need not end here…
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  • Contents
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