Sexual inversion : a critical edition / Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds (1897) ; edited by Ivan Crozier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ellis, Havelock, 1859-1939.

Contributor:

Symonds, John Addington, 1840-1893.

Crozier, Ivan, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality.

Medicine in literature.

Homosexuality--psychology.

Medicine in Literature.

homosexuality.

Medical Subjects:

Homosexuality--psychology.

Medicine in Literature.

Homosexuality.

Physical Description:

vii, 351 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hamphire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Summary:

"In 1897, Havelock Ellis published the first English medical textbook on homosexuality, Sexual Inversion, which he had co-authored with the late John Addington Symonds in the early years of the 1890s. This text, having been published the preceding year in German, was banned by Symonds' literary executor; the next edition was banned as an obscene publication in the 'Bedborough Trial'. Finally, the text was published in a new edition in America in 1901, and was updated in 1915 to take account of the new Freudian theories of sexuality. The original 1897 edition contained 33 original case histories of homosexual men and women, and was an important text in the fight against the legal oppression of homosexuality in England. This new edition of the joint-authored 1897 text, including John Addington Symonds' appendix on Greek love that was adapted for the original publication, situates the work in its intellectual and social contexts, and provides a fully-edited text for both students and historians of psychiatry and sexuality."--BOOK JACKET.

Contents:

Crozier's Introduction

Ellis and Symonds' Sexual Inversion chapters

Ellis and Symonds Sexual Inversion Appendices

Complete Bibliography.

Notes:

Critical edition of work originally published 1897.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-344) and index.

ISBN:

9780230008038

0230008038

OCLC:

225087391

Publisher Number:

99994080539