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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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Author:   A. Schaffner
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.546kg
ISBN:  

9780230231627

ISBN 10:   0230231624
Pages:   315
Publication Date:   22 November 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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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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.

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