Modernism and perversion : sexual deviance in sexology and literature, 1850-1930 / Anna Katharina Schaffner.
"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...
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2012.
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Table of 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.