Modernism and Perversion

Sexual Deviance in Sexology and Literature, 1850-1930

A. Schaffner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

315 Seiten

2011
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-0-230-23163-4 (ISBN)

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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.

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 a monograph on avant-garde poetry entitled Sprachzerlegung in historischer Avantgardelyrik und konkreter Poesie (2007) and articles on Dada, David Lynch, Franz Kafka, Frank Schulz, Richard von Krafft-Ebing and Thomas Mann.

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

Reihe/Serie	Modernism and...
Zusatzinfo	XXI, 315 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-230-23163-2 / 0230231632
ISBN-13	978-0-230-23163-4 / 9780230231634
Zustand	Neuware