Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: The "Strange and Familiar Word" Chapter 1: The Forms of the Perverse Chapter 2: "Some Things Which Could Never Have Happened" Chapter 3: Murder and "Point of View" Chapter 4: The Marquis de Sade in the Twentieth Century Chapter 5: American Cruelty

About the Author

Catherine Toal is Professor of Literature and Dean of the College at Bard College Berlin, Germany.

Reviews

"This is a bracing book, a powerful argument on a topic of real import, written with unusual elegance and panache." -- -Amanda Claybaugh Harvard University