7. Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Fine Print: A Foreword ix
4. Introduction: The Subject of Consent 1
5. Part I: Consent, Power, and Agency
6. 1. Consent, Command, Confession 11
7. 2. The Gender of Consent in Patmore, Hopkins, and Marie Lataste 27
8. 3. Consensual Sex, Consensual Text: Law, Literature, and the Production of the Consenting Subject 44
9. 4. Consent and the Limits of Abuse in Their Eyes Were Watching God and “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do” 63
10. Part II: Consent, Violence, and Refusal
11. 5. The Seduction of Rape as Allegory in Postcolonial Literature 83
12. 6. Willful Creatures: Consent, Discord, Animal Will, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles 100
13. 7. Consenting to Read: Trigger Warnings and Textual Violence 116
14. 8. Ambivalent Desires: Blue Is the Warmest Color, Luce Irigaray, and the Question of Consent 136
15. Part III: Consent, Personhood, and Property
16. 9. The Art of Consent 155
17. 10. Sardanapalus’s Hoard: Queer Possession in Henry James’s The Aspern Papers 172
18. 11. Queering and Quartering Informed Consent: Genomic Medicine and Hyperreal Subjectivity 189
19. 12. Vulnerabilities: Consent with Pfizer, Marx, and Hobbes 205
20. 13. “I Never Heard Anything So Monstrous!”: Developmental Psychology, Narrative Form, and the Age of Consent in What Maisie Knew 222
21. Notes on Contributors 239
22. Index 243