Sexuality and the Reading Encounter

Sexuality and the Reading Encounter is a provocative new study of the relations between reading and desire. Emma Wilson makes analyses of scenarios of pleasure and pain, eroticism and loss, in texts by Prouts, Duras, Tournier, and Cixous. Her argument emerges from current debates in feminist and queer theory. It cuts across divisions between male and female, gay and straight, arguing for a new relation between fantasy and identity.