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9780230231634

Modernism and Perversion Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

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    9780230231634

  • ISBN10:

    0230231632

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-12-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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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.

Author Biography

Anna Katharina Schaffner teaches comparative literature and is Co-Director of the Centre for Modern European Literature at the University of Kent, UK. Her publications include Sprachzerlegung in historischer Avantgardetyrik und konkreter poesie (2007) and articles on Dada, David Lynch, Franz Kafka, Frank Schulz, Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Thomas Mann.

Table of Contents

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

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