Sexuality at the fin de siècle : the makings of a "central problem" / edited by Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cryle, P. M. (Peter Maxwell), 1946-

Forth, Christopher E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex--History--19th century.

Sex.

Sex customs--History--19th century.

Sex customs.

Human body in popular culture--History--19th century.

Human body in popular culture.

History.

Physical Description:

201 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2008]

Contents:

Introduction : the makings of a central problem / Peter Cryle and Christopher E. Forth

Anatomies of desire : photographic exhibitions of female bodies in fin-de-siècle anatomical museums / Elizabeth Stephens

Beyond the theater of desire : hysterical performativity and perverse choreography in the writings of the Salpêtrière School, 1862-93 / Jonathan Marshall

The bastard offspring of Hermes and Aphrodite : sexual "anomalies" and medical curiosity in France / Gabrielle Houbre ; Nikki Clavarino and Peter Cryle, translators

The aesthetics of the spasm / Peter Cryle

Measurements of civilization : non-western female sexuality and the fin-de-siècle social body / Heike Bauer

"The despair of unhappy love" : pederasty and popular fiction in the Belle Époque / Michael L. Wilson

Fin-de-siècle sexuality and excretion / Alison Moore

A diet of pleasures : sexuality, dietetics, and identity at the fin de siècle / Christopher E. Forth

The "open secret," affect, and the history of sexuality / Carolyn J. Dean

Afterword : sex and heredity at the fin de siècle / Vernon A. Rosario.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874130379

0874130379

OCLC:

212432469