Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Acknowledgements
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Narratives of Transformation
6. Chapter 1 Narrativizing S/M Pleasures 31
7. Chapter 2 Hrothgar’s Hosiery: A Bædling Hermeneutics 61
8. Chapter 3 Submitting to Divine Power 91
9. Part 2: Desire and Fantasy
10. Chapter 4 Ritualized Sacrifice 147
11. Chapter 5 All the Sadistic Ladies 171
12. Chapter 6 Contemporary Visions 209
13. Coda: Beowulf’s Kinky Pleasures 237
14. Bibliography
15. Index