Violent sensations
Subtitle: sex, crime, and utopia in Vienna and Berlin, 1860-1914
By: Scott Spector
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780226196640; 9780226196787
Subjects: Press coverage; Lust murder; Sex crimes in literature; Homosexuality; Modern Civilization; Blood accusation; Sex crimes; Social Marginality; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: On the border; title: Dark city, bright future: utopian and dystopian urban genres around 1900; title: Identical origins: (homo)sexual subjects and violent fantasy in the 1860s; title: Sensation and sensibility: experts, scandals, subjects; title: Utopian bodies: the sensual woman and the lust murderer; title: Blood lies: the truth about modern ritual murder accusations and defenses; title: Conclusion: Utopia.