Modernism and perversion sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner.
| Author/creator | Schaffner, Anna Katharina |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xxi, 315 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Modernism 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 note | Includes bibliographical reference (pages 298-311) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011047522 |
| ISBN | 9780230231634 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0230231632 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780230231627 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0230231624 (hardback) |
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