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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schaffner, Anna Katharina.

Series:

Modernism and--

Modernism and ...

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paraphilias--History.

Paraphilias.

Sexology--History.

Sexology.

Sex customs in literature--History.

Sex customs in literature.

Sex in literature--History.

Sex in literature.

Modernism (Literature).

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 315 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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Acknowledgments

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

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230231627

0230231624

9780230231634

0230231632

OCLC:

748328715

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