Modernism and Perversion [electronic resource] : Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930 /
Schaffner, A.author.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Social history.
Europe-History.
Literature.
History, Modern.
Sexual behavior.
Sexual psychology.
Fiction.
Social History.
European History.
Literature, general.
Modern History.
Sexual Behavior.
Fiction.