The book Fifty Shades of Grey by Erika Leonard James is the first of a trilogy that has been labeled by most of the critic as a low quality literary work. ... The presence of some literary references like the myth of Icarus or Tess of D'Ubervilles by Tomas Hardy (James 54, 55) does not grant any intertextuality. ... Is it possible for modern readers to find appealing the slavery, the submission of a young independent woman, who is starting to identify herself sexually and as a person to the terms of a man? A man who wants to control what she eats and when, how she dress, who she hang out...

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