Claire Jarvis is an American scholar known for her work in Victorian literature and theories of human

sexuality.

^[2] She is an assistant professor at Stanford University who teaches English.

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She has a written a book called, Exquisite Masochism: Sex, Marriage and the Novel Form.^[6]

Jarvis lives in San Francisco Bay Area, a place where she has resided for more than a decade.

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After high school, Jarvis committed to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she received her Bachelor's degree in English.

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Years later she attended Boston University where she received her Master's degree in poetry.

^[5] He also received his Master's degree from Johns Hopkins University.

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Jarvis is the assistant professor of English at Stanford University, where she also studies Victorian literature with emphasis on the novel and theories of sexuality.

^[6] She has been at the University since 2008.

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Her current project is titled Making Scenes: Supersensual Masochism and Victorian Literature, and examines the relationship between masochism and companionate marriage in novels by Emily Brontë, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy, and in representations of Queen Victoria.

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She has published a book called, Exquisite Masochism: Marriage, Sex, and the Novel Form which centered on Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Anthony Trollope's *Can You Forgive Her? * and The Way We Live Now, Thomas Hardy's *Jude the Obscure * and D.

H. Lawrence's Brangwen novels, trace the effects of what she calls "exquisite" masochism on the idea of sexual and romantic partnership as it develops in the realist novel.

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