Modernism and perversion : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner.
- Schaffner, Anna Katharina.
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- 2012
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"Charting the construction of sexual perversions in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century medical, psychiatric and psychological discourse, Schaffner argues that sexologists' preoccupation with these perversions was a response to specifically modern concerns, and illuminates the role of literary texts in the formation of sexological knowledge"-- Provided by publisher.
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Physical description
xxi, 315 pages ; 20 cm.
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Contents
Introduction -- Part I. The Perversions in Sexology: The birth of a science: from Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing; The French scene: degeneration theory and the invention of fetishism; Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence; The golden age of sexology in Germany: activism, institutionalization and the anthropological turn; Freud, literature and the perversification of mankind -- Part II. The Perversions in Modernist Literature: Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the degenerate sublime; Anal sex: D.H. Lawrence and the back door to transcendence; Sadism: Marcel Proust and the banality of evil; Masochism: Franz Kafka and the eroticization of suffering; Fetishism: Georges Bataille and sexual-textual transgression -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical reference (p. 298-311) and index.
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Location Status History of MedicineTPN.AA8-9Open shelves
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- 9780230231634
- 0230231632
- 9780230231627
- 0230231624