Modernism and perversion sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner.

Author/creator Schaffner, Anna Katharina
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan,
Descriptionxxi, 315 pages ; 20 cm.
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SeriesModernism and ...
Modernism and-- ^A1092784
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical reference (pages 298-311) and index.
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LCCN 2011047522
ISBN9780230231634 (pbk.)
ISBN0230231632 (pbk.)
ISBN9780230231627 (hardback)
ISBN0230231624 (hardback)

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