Complete 24 page APA formatted essay: Mixed Feelings.
In exploring the politics of sensationalism and affect, I
presume that the process of naming and assigning social and
cultural meanings to bodily responses, such as “sensations,” has a
history. My project is thus part of the larger enterprise of
producing a history of the body and of physiological experiences
such as affect and sexuality.
Recent scholarship in this area has been profoundly
revisionist because it has provided histories of phenomena that had
previously been considered natural or outside the work of culture.
The importance of Foucault’s work on the history of sexuality, for
example, resides not just in its specific details, but in its claim
that sexuality has a history and is not a natural or prediscursive
entity. 1 Tracing the cultural construction of the body or
sexuality has revealed how ideologies are naturalized by the often
invisible work of attaching meanings to physical processes. I have
studied the sensation novel and the politics of sensation in order
to participate in this broader project of exploring the political
consequences of constructing the body, sexuality, and affect as
“natural.” Thus, I am less interested in offering a descriptive
history of the sensation novel than in considering how a discourse
about the “sensational” or affective serves as a vehicle for the
promulgation of ideologies of gender and mass culture. And I have
found in Victorian criticism of the sensation novel an opportunity
to examine how and why “sensationalism” acquired its new meaning
and a bad reputation. What I have uncovered points to a more
general theory of the politics of sensationalism.
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