Modernism and perversion / Anna Katharina Schaffner.
By: Schaffner, Anna Katharina
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BookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012Description: xxi, 315 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9780230231634.Subject(s): Paraphilias -- History | Sexology -- History | Sex customs in literature | Sex in literature -- History | Modernism (Literature) | HISTORY / Social History | HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century | LITERARY CRITICISM / General | RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender StudiesDDC classification: 306.7/09 Online resources: Cover image | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Includes bibliographical reference (p. 298-311) 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"--
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