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urn:uuid:d6dc2d29-c954-472c-8bc8-ee7a8f2399ca 03 15 9781805116998 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Sensing Violence Reading with the Marquis de Sade 1 A01 Will McMorran Will McMorran is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Queen Mary University of London. He has published several articles and book chapters on Sade and the history of his reception, and has edited and translated two of his works: 'The 120 Days of Sodom' (2016) for Penguin Classics with Thomas Wynn, which was awarded the Scott Moncrieff Prize, and The Marquise de Gange (2021) for Oxford World’s Classics. His work as a translator has also included several stories for 'The Penguin Book of French Short Stories' (2022), and Philippe Brenot’s graphic history, 'The Story of Sex' (2016). 01 eng 00 266 03 10 LIT004150 23 Literature 23 Marquis de Sade 04 PQ2063.S3 23 Embodied Cognition 23 European Studies 10 LIT025000 23 European Studies: French Studies 10 LIT007000 23 Violence 10 LIT004290 23 Pedagogy 23 Philosophy 10 PSY008000 23 Translation Studies 23 Pornography 10 SOC051000 01 06 03 00 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. 04 00 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 of resources available online at: https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0488#resources Bibliography Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20250924 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805116967 06 15 9781805116974 06 15 9781805116981 06 15 9781805117001 06 15 9781805116998 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD