Modernism and perversion
By: Anna Katharina Schaffner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230231634
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / General; HISTORY / Social History; Sex customs in literature; Sexology; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Modernism (Literature); RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies; Sex in literature; Paraphilias; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: PART I: THE PERVERSIONS IN SEXOLOGY; title: The Birth of a Science: From Masturbation Theory to Krafft-Ebing; title: The French Scene: Degeneration Theory and the Invention of Fetishism; title: Sexology in England: Ellis, Carpenter and Lawrence; title: The Golden Age of Sexology in Germany: Activism, Institutionalization and the Anthropological Turn; title: Freud, Literature and the Perversification of Mankind; title: PART II: THE PERVERSIONS IN MODERNIST LITERATURE; title: Homosexuality: Thomas Mann and the Degenerate Sublime; title: Anal Sex: D.H. Lawrence and the Back Door to Transcendence; title: Sadism: Marcel Proust and the Banality of Evil; title: Masochism: Franz Kafka and the Eroticization of Suffering; title: Fetishism: Georges Bataille and Sexual-Textual Transgression; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography.