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Modernism and perversion
Anna Katharina Schaffner
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"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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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, English literature, history and criticism, 19th century, French literature, history and criticism, 19th century, German literature, history and criticism, 19th century, Anal sex, Sex, Masturbation, Homosexuality, Sadism, Fetishism (Psychiatric)

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Table of Contents

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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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Includes index.

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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, New York

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306.7/09
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HQ71 .S333 2012, HN8-HN19D900-D2027PN

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OL25121973M
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9780230231634
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2011047522
OCLC/WorldCat
748328715

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